CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT (3) In any criminal proceedings against a corporate body, a director or employee of that corporate body shall be cited, as representative of that corporate body, as the offender, and thereupon the person so cited may, as such representative, be dealt with as if he were the person accused of having committed the offence in question: Provided that— (i) if the said person pleads guilty, the plea shall not be valid unless the corporate body authorized him to plead guilty; (ii) if at any stage of the proceedings the said person ceases to be a director or employee of that corporate body or absconds or is unable to attend, the court or magistrate concerned may, at the request of the prosecutor, from time to time substitute for the said person, any other person who is a director or employee of the corporate body at the time of the said substitution, and thereupon the proceedings shall continue as if no substitution had taken place; (iii) if the said person, as representing the corporate body, is committed for trial, he shall not be committed to prison but shall be released on his own recognizance to stand trial; (iv) if the said person, as representing the corporate body, is convicted, the court convicting him shall not impose upon him in his representative capacity any punishment, whether direct or as an alternative, other than a fine, even if the relevant enactment makes no provision for the imposition of a fine in respect of the offence in question, and such fine shall be payable by the corporate body and may be recovered by attachment and sale of any property of the corporate body in terms of section three hundred and forty-eight; (v) the citation of a director or employee of a corporate body to represent that corporate body in any criminal proceedings instituted against it shall not exempt that director or employee from prosecution for that offence in his personal capacity. [Proviso as amended by s. 282 of Act No. 23 of 2004] (4) In any criminal proceedings against a corporate body, any record which was made or kept by a director, employee or agent of the corporate body within the scope of his activities as such director, employee or agent, or any document which was at any time in the custody or under the control of any such director, employee or agent within the scope of his activities as such director, employee or agent, shall be admissible in evidence against the accused. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), any record made or kept by a director, employee or agent of a corporate body or any document which was at any time in his custody or control shall be presumed to have been made or kept by him or to have been in his custody or control within the scope of his activities as such director, employee or agent, unless the contrary is proved. (6) … [Subsection repealed by s. 282 of Act No. 23 of 2004] (7) In any proceedings against a director or employee of a corporate body in respect of an offence— (a) any evidence which would be or was admissible against that corporate body in a prosecution for that offence shall be admissible against the accused; (b) whether or not such corporate body is or was liable to prosecution for the offence, any document, memorandum, book or record which was drawn up, entered up or kept in the ordinary course of that corporate body’s business or which was at any time in the custody or under the control of any director, employee or agent of the corporate body in his capacity as director, employee or agent, shall be prima facie evidence of its contents and admissible in evidence against the accused, unless he is able to prove that at all material times he had no knowledge of the document, memorandum, book or record in so far as its contents are relevant to the offence charged, and was in no way party to the drawing up of the document or memorandum or making of any relevant entries in such book or record. (8) … 146