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Part VI · Offences

41. Offence committed by partnerships, bodies corporate and agents and servants

(1)

Where a partnership is guilty of an offence against this Order, every partner, other than a partner who is proved to have been ignorant of or to have attempted to prevent the commission of the offence, is also guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2}

Where an offence against this Order which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body, or of a person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, is also guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished according! y.

(3)

In relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, "director", in subsection (2), means any member of that body corporate.

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