Section 207: Proceedings against corporations.

(1) A corporation may be charged either alone or jointly with another person with an offence triable onindictment or triable summarily before a Magistrate's Court. (2) A representative may on behalf of the corporation make a statement before the Court in answer to the charge. (3) Where a representative appears, any requirement of this Act that anything shall be done in the presence of the accused or the defendant, or shall be read or said to the accused or the defendant, shall be construed as a requirement that this things shall be done in the presence of the representative or reach or said to the representative. (4) Where a representative does not appear, any such requirement, and any requirement that the consent of the accused shall be obtained for summary trial, shall not apply. (5) Where any person is charged jointly with a corporation with an offence triable on indictment and either that person or the corporation by its representative does not consent that the offence should be dealt with summarily in pursuance of section 6 of the Courts Act, 1965, the Court shall not have power to deal summarily with the offence in the case of the other offender. (6) Where a corporation is charged with an offence triable on indictment or triable summarily, the corporation may, on arraignment before the Supreme Court or on being asked to plead by the Magistrate, as the case may be, enter in writing by its representative a plea of guilty or not guilty, and if either the corporation does not appear by a representative or, though it does so appear fails to enter any plea, the Court shall order a plea of not guilty to be entered and the trial shall proceed as though the corporation had duly entered a plea of not guilty.