Insolvency Act · s 237

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s 237Summary proceedings

(1)

Summary proceedings for any offence under any of Parts 1 to 7

may be taken against a body corporate at any place at which the body corporate has a place of business, and against any other person at any place at which he is for the time being.

(2)

An information relating to such an offence which is triable by a

Court of a Magistrate may be so tried if it is laid at any time within 3 years after the commission of the offence and within 12 months after the date on

Insolvency which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the Public Prosecutor or Minister, as the case may be, to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge.

(3)

For the purposes of this section, a certificate of the Public

Prosecutor or Minister, as the case may be, as to the date on which such evidence as is mentioned in subsection (2) came to his knowledge is conclusive evidence.