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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 78

Offences by corporations

78 Offences by corporations

(1) If a corporation commits an offence under this Act or the regulations, each person who is a director of the corporation, or who is concerned in the management of the corporation, is to be taken to have committed the same offence if the person knowingly authorised or permitted the act or omission constituting the offence.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of an offence under a provision of the regulations that is declared by the regulations to be an excluded provision for the purposes of this section.
(2) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision pursuant to this section whether or not the corporation has been proceeded against or convicted under that provision.
(3) Nothing in this section affects any liability imposed on a corporation for an offence committed by the corporation under this Act or the regulations.



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