Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:592:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 592 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 2097788–2099290

a company, the payment by that person or either or any of those persons of the whole or any part of that debt does not render the company liable to the person concerned in respect of the amount so paid.
 (6) Where:
 (a) a company has done an act (including the making of a contract or the entering into of a transaction) with intent to defraud creditors of the company or of any other person or for any other fraudulent purpose; and
 (b) the company was at the time when it does the act, or becomes at a later time, a company to which this section applies;
any person who was knowingly concerned in the doing of the act with that intent or for that purpose contravenes this subsection.
 (6A) For the purposes of an offence based on subsection (6), absolute liability applies to paragraph (6)(b).
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.
 (7) A certificate issued by the proper officer of an Australian court stating that a person specified in the certificate:
 (a) was convicted of an offence under subsection (1) in relation to a debt specified in the certificate incurred by a company so specified; or
 (b) was convicted of an offence under subsection (6) in relation to a company specified in the certificate;
is, in any proceedings, prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
 (8) A document purporting to be a certificate issued under subsection (7) is, unless the contrary is established, taken to be such a certificate and to have been duly issued.