Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

Section 135 - Fictitious trading

Where a person orders, or makes a bargain for the purchase of goods or things by way of sale or exchange, and after obtaining the goods or the things, that person defaults in payment of the purchase money or in rendering the goods or things to be rendered by that person by way of an exchange, that person commits the criminal offence of defrauding or attempting to defraud by false pretences if

(a) at the time of giving the order or making the bargain, that person intended to make that default; and

(b) the order was given or the bargain was made with intent to defraud and not in the course of a trade carried on in good faith.

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