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Bankrupt or arranging debtor failing to keep proper accounts. 26.(1) Any person adjudged bankrupt and any person who shall have presented a petition for arrangement with his creditors, in pursuance of the Act of 1857 as amended by the Act of 1872, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, if, having been engaged in any trade or business during any period in the two years immediately preceding the date of the presentation of a bankruptcy petition against or by him, or a petition for arrangement with his creditors by him, he has not kept proper books of account throughout that period and throughout any further period in which he was so engaged between the date of the presentation of the petition and the date of adjudication of bankruptcy, or the date on which his proposed arrangement was approved by the court, as the case may be, or has not preserved all books of account so kept: Provided that a person who has not kept or has not preserved such books of account shall not be convicted of an offence under this section (a)if his unsecured liabilities at the date of the presentation of the said petition of bankruptcy or petition for arrangement did not exceed, in the case of a person who has not on any previous occasion been adjudged bankrupt or made a composition or arrangement with his creditors [#6,000], or in any other case [#1,200]; or (b)if he proves that in the circumstances in which he traded or carried on business the omission was honest and excusable. [(2) No proceedings shall be instituted for an offence under this section except by or with the consent of the Attorney General; ...] (3) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed not to have kept proper books of account, if he has not kept such books or accounts as are necessary to exhibit or explain his transactions and financial position in his trade or business, including a book or books containing entries from day to day in sufficient detail of all cash received and cash paid, and, where the trade or business has involved dealings in goods, statements of annual stocktakings, and (except in the case of goods sold by way of retail trade to the actual consumer) accounts of all goods sold and purchased showing the buyers and sellers thereof in sufficient detail to enable the goods and the buyers and sellers thereof to be identified. (4) Paragraphs (9), (10) and (11) of sub-section (1) of section eleven of the Debtors Act (Ireland), 1872 (which relate to the destruction, mutilation, and falsification and other fraudulent dealing with books and documents) shall, in their application to such books or accounts as aforesaid, have effect as if "two years next before such presentation respectively" were substituted for the time mentioned in those paragraphs as the time prior to the presentation within which the acts or omissions specified in those paragraphs constitute an offence. S.27 amends s.12 of 1872 c.57 Interpretation.
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