(1) Where a corporation is charged with an offence against this Act, that corporation may appear and plead to the charge by its representative by entering a plea in writing.
(2) Where a corporation does not appear by a representative, or though it does appear, fails to enter any plea, the court shall cause a plea of not guilty to be recorded and the matter shall proceed accordingly.
(3) A case filed against a corporation or other document addressed to a corporation may be served on the corporation by leaving it at or sending it by post to the registered office of the corporation or if there is no registered office in Saint Lucia at any place in Saint Lucia at which it trades or conducts business.
(4) A representative for the purpose 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 the person has been so appointed.
(5) In this section “representative” 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 authorized 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.