Offences by corporations and partnerships etc.
17 Offences by corporations and partnerships etc.
If a corporation contravenes a provision of this Act, each person who is a director of the corporation or who is concerned in the management of the corporation is to be taken to have contravened the same provision if the person knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention.
A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision in accordance with subsection (1) whether or not the corporation has been proceeded against or convicted under that provision.
Nothing in this section affects any liability imposed on a corporation for an offence committed by the corporation against this Act.
If in a proceeding for an offence against this Act it is necessary to establish the intention of a corporation, it is sufficient to show that a servant or agent of the corporation had that intention.
If this Act provides that a person is guilty of an offence, that reference to a person must—
if the person is a partnership, be read as a reference to each member of the partnership; and
if the person is an unincorporated association, be read as a reference to each member of the committee of management of the association.
S. 17A inserted by No. 14/2021 s. 24.
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