(1)Section 16 of the 1987 Act (which provides for offences and penalties in respect of unauthorised street trading) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1), after “prescription of the licence” insert “or any provision of a temporary licence”.
(3)After subsection (2) insert—
“(2A)Where an offence under this section 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, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and liable to the same maximum penalty as the body corporate.”.