Liability of individuals, partners, bodies corporate and licensed managers
27H Liability of individuals, partners, bodies corporate and licensed managers
If an employee of a bookmaker who is a natural person commits an offence against this Act related to the business of the bookmaker, the bookmaker is to be treated as having committed an offence and is liable to the penalty prescribed for the offence committed by the employee.
If a manager, an employee or an agent of a bookmaker that is a partnership or a body corporate commits an offence against this Act related to the business of the partnership or body corporate as a bookmaker —
each of the partners; or
the body corporate,
as the case may be, is to be treated as having committed an offence and is liable to the penalty prescribed for the offence committed by the manager, employee or agent of the partnership or body corporate.
[(3) deleted]
If an employee of a bookmaker that is a partnership or a body corporate commits an offence against this Act related to the business of the bookmaker, the licensed manager of the bookmaker is to be treated as having committed an offence and is liable to the penalty prescribed for the offence committed by the employee.
[Section 27H inserted: No. 70 of 2006 s. 10(1); amended: No. 9 of 2023 s. 28.]
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