Section 57

Where a corporation is charged whether alone or jointly with some other person with any offence, the corporation may appear by its representative and the representative may on behalf of the corporation do any act or thing which an accused person may under the provisions of this Code do on his own behalf.

No proceedings shall be deemed to be invalid by reason only of the non-appearance of an accused corporation or of the omission to do anything which under the provisions of this Code is directed to be done, if the omission is a necessary consequence of the non-appearance.

In this section “representative”, in relation to a corporation, means a person duly appointed by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of doing any act or thing which the representative of a corporation is by this section authorised to do, but a person so appointed shall not, by virtue only of being so appointed, be qualified to act on behalf of the corporation before any court for any other purpose.

A representative for the purposes of this section need not be appointed under the seal of the corporation, and a statement in writing purporting to be signed by a managing director of the corporation, or by any person (by whatever name called) having, or being one of the persons having, the management of the affairs of the corporation, to the effect that the person named in the statement has been appointed as the representative of the corporation for the purposes of this section shall be admissible without further proof as prima facie evidence that that person has been appointed.[56