ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 209A
Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence
ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 209A
Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence
209A Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence
(1) If a corporation commits an offence against a
deemed executive liability provision, each executive officer of the
corporation is taken to have also committed the offence if—
(a) the officer
authorised or permitted the corporation’s conduct constituting the offence;
or
(b) the officer was, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in the
corporation’s conduct.
(2) The executive officer may be proceeded against
for, and convicted of, the offence against the
deemed executive liability provision whether or not the corporation has been
proceeded against for, or convicted of, the offence.
(3) This section does
not affect either of the following—
(b) the
liability, under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of any person, whether or not
the person is an executive officer of the corporation, for the offence against
the deemed executive liability provision.
(4) In this section—
"deemed executive liability provision" means any of the following
provisions—