Section 144: Form of information and sentences

144. Form of information and sentences (1) In an information for an offence under this Act, it shall be sufficient to specify the substance of the offence charged in the words of the Act specifying the offence or as near to it as circumstances admit, without alleging or specifying any debt, act of bankruptcy, trading, adjudication or any proceedings in, or order, warrant or document of the Court acting under this Act. (2) Any number of offences under this Act may be charged in the same information and separate, cumulative or successive sentences may be passed by the Supreme Court, the Intermediate Court or District Court, in respect of all offences so charged and may by those Courts be ordered to take effect subsequently to any previous sentence or sentences. (3) Cumulative or successive sentences passed by the Intermediate Court shall not in total exceed 3 years’ imprisonment with or without hard labour, and cumulative and successive sentences passed by the District Court shall not in all exceed one year’s imprisonment with or without hard labour. (4) Where a debtor or other person is charged with having committed offences against this Act or any other enactment relating to bankruptcy in more than one district, the prosecution in respect of all or any of the offences may take place in any of the districts in which one of the offences was committed.