Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsWhere a body corporate has committed an offence against this Act, a person who, at the time the offence was committed, was a director, or a member of the governing body, of the body corporate, or the manager or an officer concerned in the management of the business in the Territory of the body corporate (including, where the offence consists of publication in a newspaper or other periodical, the editor thereof) shall be deemed to have committed a like offence and be liable therefore, unless he proves that the offence occurred without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.