Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969

71Offences by societies to be also offences by officers, etc.N.I.

Every offence committed by a registered society under this Act shall be deemed to have been also committed by every officer of that society bound by the society's rules to fulfil the duty of which that offence is a breach or, if there is no such officer, by every member of the society's committee who is not proved to have been ignorant of, or to have attempted to prevent, the commission of that offence.