THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 5 - EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATION

PART 5.8 - OFFENCES

SECTION 596   FRAUDS BY OFFICERS  

596    A person who, while an officer of a company:

(a)  by false pretences or by means of any other fraud, induces a person to give credit to the company or to a related body corporate;

(b)  with intent to defraud the company or a related body corporate, or members or creditors of the company or of a related body corporate, makes or purports to make, or causes to be made or to be purported to be made, any gift or transfer of, or charge on, or causes or connives at the levying of any execution against, property of the company or of a related body corporate; or

(c)  with intent to defraud the company or a related body corporate, or members or creditors of the company or of a related body corporate, conceals or removes any part of the property of the company or of a related body corporate after, or within 2 months before, the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against the company or a related body corporate;

contravenes this section.