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Energy Pipelines Act 1981
58FActions etc. of employee or agent of body corporate are those
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58F Actions etc. of employee or agent of body corporate are those
of body corporate
(1) If in proceedings for an offence against this Part it is necessary to
establish the state of mind of a body corporate in relation to
particular conduct, it is sufficient to show:
(a) that the conduct was engaged in by a director, manager,
employee or agent of the body corporate within the scope of
his or her actual or apparent authority; and
(b) that the director, manager, employee or agent had the
relevant state of mind.
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(2) For the purposes of a prosecution for an offence against this Part,
conduct engaged in on behalf of a body corporate by a director,
manager, employee or agent of the body corporate within the
scope of his or her actual or apparent authority is taken to have
been engaged in also by the body corporate.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a reference to engaging in conduct
is to be read as including a reference to failing or refusing to
engage in conduct.