Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND (LAKE CONDAH AND FRAMLINGHAM FOREST) ACT 1987 No. 34 of 1987 - SECT 37

37. (1) Where, in proceedings for an offence against this Act in respect of
any conduct engaged in by a corporation, it is necessary to establish the
state of mind of the corporation, it is sufficient to show that a director,
servant or agent of the corporation, being a director, servant or agent by
whom the conduct was engaged in within the scope of actual or apparent
authority, had that state of mind.

(2) Any conduct engaged in on behalf of a corporation:

   (a)  by a director, servant or agent of the corporation within the scope of
        actual or apparent authority; or

   (b)  by any other person at the direction or with the consent or agreement
        (whether express or implied) of a director, servant or agent of the
        corporation, where the giving of such direction, consent or agreement
        is within the scope of the actual or apparent authority of the
        director, servant or agent; shall be deemed, for the purposes of any
        proceedings for an offence against this Act, to have been engaged in
        by the corporation.

(3) A reference in subsection (1) to the state of mind of a person includes a
reference to the knowledge, intention, opinion, belief or purpose of the
person and the person's reasons for the intention, opinion, belief or purpose.