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(1)When a company is ordered to be wound up by the court or passes a resolution for voluntary winding up, a person is deemed to have committed an offence if he, being at the time an officer of the company—
(a)has made or caused to be made any gift or transfer of, or charge on, or has caused or connived at the levying of any execution against, the company's property, or
(b)has concealed or removed any part of the company's property since, or within 2 months before, the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for the payment of money obtained against the company.
(2)A person is not guilty of an offence under this section—
(a)by reason of conduct constituting an offence under subsection (1)(a) which occurred more than 5 years before the commencement of the winding up, or
(b)if he proves that, at the time of the conduct constituting the offence, he had no intent to defraud the company's creditors.
(3)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable to imprisonment or a fine, or both.
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