Part 7Supplementary and final provisions
Other supplementary provisions
251Offences by bodies corporate
(1)
Where an offence under this Act 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)
a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or
(b)
a person purporting to act in such a capacity,
he as well as the body corporate commits the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2)
Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.