Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 272B

272B Officer may be taken to have committed offence against s 272A

(1) If a body corporate commits an offence against section 272A , each officer of the body corporate is taken to have also committed the offence if—

(a) the officer authorised or permitted the body corporate’s conduct constituting the offence; or

(b) the officer was, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in the body corporate’s conduct constituting the offence.

(2) The officer of the body corporate may be proceeded against for, and convicted of, the offence against section 272A whether or not the body corporate has been proceeded against for, or convicted of, the offence.

(3) This section does not affect either of the following—

(a) the liability of the body corporate for the offence against section 272A ;

(b) the liability, under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of any person, whether or not the person is an officer of the body corporate, for the offence against section 272A .