17(1)This paragraph applies where, at the time of the seizure of the property, it was—
(a)the property of a body corporate,
(b)the property of two or more partners, or
(c)the property of more than five persons.
(2)The oath required by paragraph 10, and any other thing required by this Schedule or by rules of court to be done by the owner of the property, may be sworn or done by—
(a)a person falling within sub-paragraph (3), or
(b)a person authorised to act on behalf of such a person.
(3)The persons are—
(a)where the owner is a body corporate, the secretary or some duly authorised officer of that body;
(b)where the owners are in partnership, any one or more of the owners;
(c)where there are more than five owners and they are not in partnership, any two or more of the owners acting on behalf of themselves and any of their co-owners who are not acting on their own behalf.