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Section 98

Statement to be made in complaint or summons of offence

of Penang Port Commission Act 1955

ActIn forceProvision 140 of 153
Section 98
(1)

It shall be sufficient, in any complaint or summons to be made before or issued by any Magistrate’s Court against any firm or company, or against any person carrying on any trade or business in co-partnership, or in any conviction to be afterwards made for any fine imposed or damages incurred by this Act or any by-law made thereunder, to state the offence committed by the firm and to direct the summons to the firm or company or any member thereof.

(2)

Service of the summons at the usual place of business of the firm shall be taken to be a sufficient service thereof.

(3)

Any such conviction may be recovered by the warrant of any Magistrate’s Court, to be made out and issued in the name of and against the firm or company, and to be levied and recovered by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the firm or company or of any individual partner thereof.

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