Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

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Offence — body corporate

66. (1) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent, connivance or approval of or to be attributable to any wilful neglect on the part of any person, being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, commits an offence and is liable to be prosecuted against and punished as if he or she were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.

(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 or her functions of management as if he or she were a director or manager of the body corporate.