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16 (7) In this section—
 * "corporation" includes a limited liability partnership within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A);
 * "officer", in relation to a corporation, means any director, partner, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the corporation, and includes—
 * (a) any person purporting to act in any such capacity; and
 * (b) for a corporation whose affairs are managed by its members, any of those members as if the member was a director of the corporation;
 * "state of mind" of a person includes—
 * (a) the knowledge, intention, opinion, belief or purpose of the person; and
 * (b) the person's reasons for the intention, opinion, belief or purpose.

Contempt by unincorporated associations or partnerships

7.—(1) Where, in a proceeding for contempt of court under this Act, it is necessary to prove the state of mind of an unincorporated association or a partnership in relation to a particular conduct, evidence that—
 * (a) an employee or agent of the unincorporated association or the partnership engaged in that conduct within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority; and
 * (b) the employee or agent had that state of mind, is evidence that the unincorporated association or partnership had that state of mind.

(2) Where an unincorporated association or a partnership commits contempt of court under this Act, a person—
 * (a) who is—
 * (i) an officer of the unincorporated association or a member of its governing body;