Article 24 Liability of bodies corporate and partnerships

Where an offence under this Order has been committed by a body corporate with the consent or connivance of, or as a result of neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or of any other person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of that offence.

Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies 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.

Where a partnership commits an offence under this Order and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or as a result of neglect on the part of, a partner, the partner as well as the partnership is guilty of that offence.