Offences by a body corporate
41 Offences by a body corporate
If a body corporate contravenes any provision of this Act, each officer (within the meaning of section 9 of the Corporations Act) of the body corporate who knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention is taken to have contravened the same provision.
S. 41(2) amended by No. 55/2016 s. 9(22)(c).
Subsection (1) does not apply to an offence against section 6(2D), 7(5), 8(3), 9(5), 13A(2A), 15M(1) or (1A) or 15S(2).
A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision in accordance with subsection (1), whether or not the body corporate has been proceeded against or convicted under that provision.
Nothing in this section affects any liability imposed on a body corporate for an offence committed by the body corporate against this Act.
S. 41AA inserted by No. 49/2009 s. 48.
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