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360 Obtaining credit; engaging in business.E+W
(1)The bankrupt is guilty of an offence if—
(a)either alone or jointly with any other person, he obtains credit to the extent of the prescribed amount or more without giving the person from whom he obtains it the relevant information about his status; or
(b)he engages (whether directly or indirectly) in any business under a name other than that in which he was adjudged bankrupt without disclosing to all persons with whom he enters into any business transaction the name in which he was so adjudged.
(2)The reference to the bankrupt obtaining credit includes the following cases—
(a)where goods are bailed to him under a hire-purchase agreement, or agreed to be sold to him under a conditional sale agreement, and
(b)where he is paid in advance (whether in money or otherwise) for the supply of goods or services.
(3)A person whose estate has been sequestrated in Scotland, or who has been adjudged bankrupt in Northern Ireland, is guilty of an offence if, before his discharge, he does anything in England and Wales which would be an offence under subsection (1) if he were an undischarged bankrupt and the sequestration of his estate or the adjudication in Northern Ireland were an adjudication under this Part.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the relevant information about the status of the person in question is the information that he is an undischarged bankrupt or, as the case may be, that his estate has been sequestrated in Scotland and that he has not been discharged.
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