29 (6) Every person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year who, while being a director, manager or secretary of a company and at any time during the reconstruction of the company, grants, promises or offers any consideration in order to induce any person to refrain from the investigation of the affairs of the company or from the prosecution on a criminal charge of any officer of the company or of any person with whom the company may have had business relations. (7) Where a company is under reconstruction, every person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months who, while being a director, manager or secretary of the company and being under examination at a meeting and being thereto required by the administrator or any creditor or member or their respective agents, fails to account for or to disclose what has become of any of the property of the company which is proved to have been in his or her possession or, to his or her knowledge, in the possession of the company so recently before the commencement of the reconstruction that in the ordinary course he or she ought to be able to account for the same. (8) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) and subsection (2)(a), an auditor of a company shall be deemed to be an officer of the company. For the purposes of subsections (5), (6) and (7), a person who is a director, manager or secretary of a company at the commencement of the reconstruction thereof shall be deemed to be a director, manager or secretary during the reconstruction thereof notwithstanding that his or her duties may have ceased or that he or she is no longer gainfully employed by the company or by its administrator on its behalf. (9) Any person who falsely holds himself or herself out to be an administrator, assistant administrator or a member of an interim board shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 37 Amendment of Cap. 9:16 The Prevention of Corruption Act [Chapter 9:16] is amended in section 7 (“Appointment of investigators”) by the repeal of subsection (4) and the substitution of the following sections— “(4) An investigator who is not a member of the Public Service shall be paid such remuneration and allowances as the Minister may fix with the approval of the Minister responsible for finance. (5) The remuneration of an investigator referred to in subsection shall be paid by the specified person: Provided that— (i) if there are two or more specified persons, such specified persons shall be jointly and severally liable to pay the remuneration of the investigator; (ii) if any specified person was acting as an agent of a company or partnership that is also a specified person, such remuneration may be paid from the funds of such company or partnership.”. 38 Saving of powers exercised under Statutory Instrument 187 of 2004 Every⎯ (a) order made; and

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