Clause 9
Fraud Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
David Heath (Shadow Leader of the House of Commons & Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Cabinet Office; Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
No more than that might be said, but it undoubtedly will be. The words are odd, but what nags away at the back of my mind is the fact that someone at some stage must have had an intention: someone, in drafting the original Act, must have detected a circumstance in which
“intent to defraud creditors of any person”
did not fall within the general compass of a fraudulent purpose. However, we have not heard yet what that distinction might have been.