The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

332 CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES-FORMS
NO. 264.-DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF CORPORATIONS OR
CO~PANIES FRAUDULENTLY APPROPRIATING PROPERTY, OR
KEEPING FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTS, OR FALSIFYING BOOKS OR
ACCOUNTS.
Section 437.
(1.) Being a director [or offie&] of the X.Y. Company, Limited, .[or of the
Corporation of tlie Municipality of A. (or as the case may be)] did, as such director
[or officer], receive [or possess himself of] $200 (or as the case mag be), the
property of the said company [or corporation], otherwise thaii in payment of a debt
justly due to him for a demand justly made by him], and that the said A.B. then
omitted either to make or to cause or direct to be made a full and true entry thereof
in the books and accouiits bf the said company [or corporation], with intent thereby
then to defraud.
(2.) Being a director [or officer or member] of the X.Y. Company, Limited,
[or of the Corporation of &.I,,
(a) destroyed [or altered or mutilated or falsified or was privy to destroying
(or altering or mutilating or falsifying) ] a book [or document or valuable security
or account or an entry in a book ,(or document or account)] which belonged to the
said company [or corporation], namely, a share register (or as the case may be),
with intent thereby then to defraud;
or (b) made [or was privy to making] a false entry in a book [or document or
account] belonging to the said company [or corporation], namely, a share register
(or as the case may be), with intent thereby then to defraud;
or (c) omitted [or was privy to omitting] from a book [or document or account]
belonging (Be. as in (b)), namely, @e., a material particular, namely, an entry of a
sum of $14,000 paid by the said company [or corporation] to oiie M.X. (or as the
case mag be) with intent thereby then to defraud.
NO. 265.-FALSE STATEMENTS BY OFFICIALS OF COMPANIES.
Section 438.
Being a promoter of the X.Y. Company, Limited, [or of a company then
intended to be formed and to be called the X.Y. Company, Limited,] [or Being a
director (or officer or auditor) of the X.Y. Company, Limited, or of the Corporation
of &e.] macle [or circulated or published] [or coilcurred in making (or circulating
or publishiiig)] a witten stateinelit [or account] which was false in a material
particular, namely, in representing the value of the assets of the said [intended]
company to be of the value of $200,000, whereas in fact they were of much less
vaIue (or as the case mug be, clescrzbing briefly the falsc statement), as the said
A.B. then well knew,
(a) with intent thereby to deceive [or defraud] members [or shareholders or
creditors] of the said company [or corporation];
or (b) with intent thereby to induce persons to become members of the said
company [or to intrust (OT advance) property to the said company (or
corporation) 3 ;
or (c) with intent thereby to induce one E.F. to enter into a security for the
benefit of the said coppany or corporation].
30. 266.-MISAPPROPRIATION BY MEMBERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
Section 440.
(1,) Scitig n nienilier of the Divisional Board of the Division of A (or US the
cur ma?/ be) advisedly applied $20, which formed part of the Divisional Fund
(or us the case maj be) i hen under the control of the said Divisional Board (or &e.),
to a purpose to which it could not lawfully be applied, as he the said A.B. then
well IZIICIV\’, nnniely, (state the illegal purpose j.
(2. j Being a meniber (&c. as in (1)) advisedly concurred in the applica.tion of
$20, which (&e. as in (1) to the end).
NO. 267.--FRAUDULENT FALSE! ACCOUNTIXG.
Section 441.
Being the clerk [or servant] of [or Being em?ln;.cd as a clerk (or servant) by
or Being then acting in the capacity of a clerk (or servant to)] one E.F. [and
otl;ers],
(a) destroyed Lor altered OT mutilated OT falsified or was privy to destroying
(or altering or mutilating or faIsifying)] a book [or document or valuable sccwlty
or account OT an entry in a book (or document or account)] which bdonged to