New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETAIL LEASES ACT 1994 - SECT 16R

16R Offences by corporations

(1) If a corporation contravenes any provision of this Part or regulations made for the purposes of this Part, each person who is a director of the corporation or who is concerned in the management of the corporation is taken to have contravened the same provision if the person knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention.

(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 this section affects any liability imposed on a corporation for an offence committed by the corporation against this Act or the regulations.

(4) This section does not apply to a person in the person’s capacity as a director of, or as a person concerned in the management of, a corporation constituted by or under an Act.