296Frauds on creditors

296 Frauds on creditors

(1)  If any person –

(a) in incurring any debt or liability has, with intent to defraud, obtained credit by a false pretence or by means of any other fraud;

(b) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, has made or caused to be made any gift or transfer of, or charge on, his property; or

(c) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, has concealed or removed any part of his property since, or within 2 months before, the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against him –

he shall be guilty of a crime.

Charge:  Fraud on a creditor.

(2)  For the purposes of this section a person who obtains a judgment against any such person shall be deemed to have been a creditor at the date on which any such act as aforesaid is alleged to have been done, if the suit or action in which such judgment is obtained had been instituted at that date.