(1) If a corporation contravenes, whether by act
or omission, any provision of this Act or the regulations, each officer of the
corporation is taken to have contravened the same provision if the person
knowingly authorised or permitted the act or omission constituting the
offence.
(2) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a
provision pursuant to subsection (1), whether or not the corporation has been
proceeded against or been convicted under that provision.
(3) Nothing in
subsection (1) prejudices or affects any liability imposed by a provision of
this Act or the regulations on any corporation by which an offence against the
provision is actually committed.
