Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts(1) Where, for the purposes of this Act, it is necessary to establish the state of mind of a body corporate or a natural person in relation to particular conduct, it is sufficient to show—
(a) that a director, servant or agent of the body, or a servant or agent of the person, had that state of mind; and
(b) that the conduct was engaged in by that director, servant or agent within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority.
(2) A reference in subsection (1) to the state of mind of a body or person shall be read as including a reference to—
(a) the knowledge, intention, opinion, belief or purpose of the body or person; and
(b) the body's or person's reasons for the intention, opinion, belief or purpose.
(3) Any conduct engaged in on behalf of a body corporate or a natural person by a director, servant or agent of the body, or a servant or agent of the person, within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to have been engaged in also by the body or person.
(4) Where—
(a) a natural person is convicted of an offence against this Act; and
(b) the person would not have been convicted of the offence if subsections (1) and (3) had not been enacted;
the person is not liable to be punished by imprisonment for that offence.
(5) A reference in this section to a director of a body corporate is to be read as including a reference to a member of a body corporate incorporated for a public purpose by a law of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory.
(6) A reference in this section to engaging in conduct is to be read as including a reference to failing or refusing to engage in conduct.