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PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 15

Falsification of accounts, etc.

15.(1) [Subject to subsection (3),] if any person, being an officer of a
company

(a)causes or permits to be included in any account, notice or other document
required or authorised by or under this Act to be delivered to the Registrar
or the Ministry any statement which, to his knowledge, is false in a material
particular;

<[(b)conceals, destroys, mutilates or falsifies, or is privy to the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification of, any document affecting or relating to the property or affairs of the company and containing information which is or may be required to be furnished under this Act;]


<[(c)makes or is privy to the making of any false entry in any such document; or]


<[(d)fraudulently parts with, alters or makes any omission in, or is privy to the fraudulent parting with, altering or making any omission in, any such document;]


(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable

(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine, or to both;

(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds, or to both.

[(3) In proceedings against any person for an offence under subsection (1)(b)
or (c), it shall be a defence to prove that he had no intent to conceal the
state of affairs of the company or to defeat the law.]

Winding up on petition of Ministry.

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