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Unemployment assistance (offences by bodies corporate).
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18.—Section 144 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsections:
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“(5) Where an offence under this Chapter or under regulations made under this Chapter is committed by a body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or was purporting to act in any such capacity shall also be guilty of that offence.
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(6) It shall be a good defence to a prosecution for an offence under subsection (5) for a person to show that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised, having regard to the nature of his position as director, manager, secretary or other officer and to all the circumstances.
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(7) Any summons or other document required to be served for the purpose of proceedings under this Chapter on a body corporate may be served—
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(a) by leaving it at or sending it by post to the registered office of the body corporate,
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(b) by leaving it at or sending it by post to any place in the State at which the body corporate conducts business, or
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(c) by sending it by post to any person who is a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or is purporting to act in any such capacity at the place where that person resides.”.
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