Section 24

a mistake on his part;

reliance on information supplied to him;

the act or default of another person; or

an accident or some other cause beyond his control, and that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control.

If in any case the defence involves the allegation that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake on his part or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person, the person charged shall not, without leave of the

Court, be entitled to rely on that defence unless, within a period of fourteen days of his being charged in Court, he has served on the prosecutor a notice in writing giving such information as was then in his possession identifying or assisting in the identification of that other person.

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In any proceedings for an offence of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods.

Where a body corporate is charged with an offence under this

Act, such body corporate shall not be entitled to rely on the defence referred to in this section.

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