Iron and Steel Act 1982

34Offences by bodies corporate

(1)Where an offence under section 32 or 33 above 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 the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against accordingly.

(2)In subsection (1) above "director", in relation to the Corporation or any other body corporate established by or under an enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership an industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate the affairs of which are managed by its members, means a member of the Corporation or that other body corporate, as the case may be.