PART 14MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

False claim of status as creditor, etc

153.—(1) Where the Rules provide for creditors or members of a company a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court’s file or in the hands of a postal administrator or other person, it is an offence for a person, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents which the person has not under the Rules any right to inspect, falsely to claim a status which would entitle the person to inspect them.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Rule is liable to imprisonment, or a fine, or both.