Merchant Shipping Act, 1992
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Provisions in relation to prosecutions. |
32.—(1) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any 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 any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he were guilty of the first-mentioned offence. | |
(2) In a prosecution for an offence under Part III , if it is proved that on the occasion concerned passengers were being carried on a vessel or were on board the vessel for the purposes of carriage, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that the carriage concerned was for reward. | ||
(3) Proceedings for a summary offence under this Act may be brought and prosecuted by the Minister. |