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Regulation 21 Offences by bodies corporateI1

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(1)

Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a)

any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b)

any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), “director”, in relation to any body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.

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Reg. 21 in force at 8.10.2005, see reg. 1