Personal Insolvency Act 2012
Concealment or falsification of documents. |
128.— (1) A person to whom this section applies is guilty of an offence where he or she commits an act referred to in subsection (2) for the purpose of— | |
(a) obtaining an insolvency arrangement, | ||
(b) avoiding an obligation under section 36 , | ||
(c) obtaining a protective certificate under Chapter 3 or 4 of this Part, | ||
(d) avoiding an obligation under a Debt Settlement Arrangement or Personal Insolvency Arrangement, | ||
(e) avoiding the variation or termination of an insolvency arrangement, or | ||
(f) avoiding any other obligation under this Act. | ||
(2) A person commits an act referred to in this subsection where he or she— | ||
(a) fails to provide, at the request of the Insolvency Service, all of the financial records of which he or she has possession or control, | ||
(b) prevents the production to the Insolvency Service of a financial record, | ||
(c) conceals, destroys, mutilates or falsifies, or causes or permits the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification of, a financial record, | ||
(d) makes, or causes or permits the making of, any false entries in a financial record, or | ||
(e) disposes of, or alters or makes any omission in, or causes or permits the disposal, altering or making of any omission in, a financial record. | ||
(3) This section applies to a person— | ||
(a) on whose behalf an application under section 29 , 59 or 93 is made, | ||
(b) who is a specified debtor under Chapter 1, | ||
(c) who is party, as a debtor, to a Debt Settlement Arrangement which is in effect, or | ||
(d) who is party, as a debtor, to a Personal Insolvency Arrangement which is in effect. | ||
(4) In this section “financial record”, in relation to a person to whom this section applies, means a book, document or record relating to that person’s financial affairs. |