Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 12 of 1980 - SECT 156

156. Section 269 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) "Two hundred dollars" and substituting
"$500";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (a) "or" last occurring; and

   (c)  by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraphs:



"(aa) either alone or jointly with another person, obtain goods or services
from a person-

        (i)    by giving a bill of exchange or cheque drawn, or a promissory
               note made, by him either alone or jointly with another person,
               being a bill, cheque or note under which the sum payable is
               $500 or more; or

        (ii)   by giving 2 or more such instruments under which the sums
               payable amount in the aggregate to $500 or more, without
               informing that person that he is an undischarged bankrupt;



"(ab) either alone or jointly with another person, enter into a hire-purchase
agreement with a person, or enter into a contract or agreement for the leasing
or hiring of any goods from a person, being a hire-purchase agreement,
contract or agreement under which the amounts payable to that person amount in
the aggregate to $500 or more, without informing that person that he is an
undischarged bankrupt;



"(ac) either alone or jointly with another person, obtain goods or services
from a person by promising to pay that person or another person an amount of,
or amounts aggregating, $500 or more without informing that person that he is
an undischarged bankrupt;



"(ad) either alone or jointly with another person, obtain an amount of, or
amounts aggregating, $500 or more from a person by promising to supply goods
to, or render services for, that person or another person without informing
that person that he is an undischarged bankrupt; or".