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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 10

Indictment of bodies corporate

10 Indictment of bodies corporate

(1) Unless a contrary intention appears, a provision of an Act relating to an offence applies to bodies corporate as well as to individuals.
(2) On arraignment, a body corporate may enter a plea of "guilty" or "not guilty" by means of writing signed by its representative.
(3) If no such plea is entered the court is to enter a plea of "not guilty", and the trial is to proceed as though the body corporate had pleaded "not guilty".
(4) A representative of a body corporate need not be appointed under the body's seal.
(5) A written statement that--
(a) purports to be signed by one of the persons having the management of the affairs of the body corporate, and
(b) contains a statement to the effect that a named person is the body's representative,
is admissible as evidence that the named person has been so appointed.



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