Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 253

In this Division—

"associate", in relation to a body corporate, means—

        (a)     an employee or agent of the body corporate to the extent that he or she is acting within the actual or apparent scope of his or her employment or within his or her actual or apparent authority; or

        (b)     an officer of the body corporate;

"board of directors" means the body (by whatever name called) exercising the executive authority of the body corporate;

"corporate culture" means an attitude, policy, rule, course of conduct or practice existing within the body corporate generally or in the part of the body corporate in which the relevant conduct is carried out or the relevant intention formed;

S. 253 def. of legal proceeding amended by No. 69/2009 s. 39.

"legal proceeding" has the same meaning as in the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958 ;

"officer", in relation to a body corporate, means an officer (as defined by section 9 of the Corporations Act) of the body corporate to the extent that he or she is acting within the actual or apparent scope of his or her employment or within his or her actual or apparent authority;

"relevant conduct" means the destruction, concealment, or rendering illegible, undecipherable or incapable of identification, of a document or other thing of any kind;

"relevant intention" means the intention of preventing a document or other thing of any kind from being used in evidence in a legal proceeding.

New s. 254 inserted by No. 6/2006 s. 3.