34.—(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with–
(a)any provision of regulations 6 to 23, 24(1), 26, 27, 30 or 33; or
(b)any notice issued under regulation 32(1),
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Where an offence under these Regulations which has been committed by a body corporate or partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity (or in the case of a partnership, a partner or a person who was purporting to act as such), that officer or person as well as the body corporate or partnership shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(3) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, the provisions of paragraph (2) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member’s functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.