Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If, in proceedings under this Act in respect of conduct that is engaged in by a body corporate and to which this Act applies, it is necessary to establish the state of mind of the body corporate, it is sufficient to show—
(a) that an officer, employee or agent of the body corporate engaged in that conduct within the scope of the actual or apparent authority of the officer, employee or agent; and
(b) that the officer, employee or agent had that state of mind.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, any conduct engaged in on behalf of a body corporate—
(a) by an officer, employee or agent of the body corporate acting within the scope of the person's actual or apparent authority; or
(b) by any other person at the direction, or with the consent (express or implied) of such an officer, employee or agent—
is taken to be conduct engaged in by the body corporate.