Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The executive officers of a corporation must ensure the corporation complies with this Act.
(2) If a corporation commits an offence against a provision of this Act, each of the corporation's executive officers also commits an offence, namely, the offence of failing to ensure the corporation complies with the provision.
Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.
(3) Evidence that a corporation has been convicted of an offence against a provision of this Act is evidence each of the corporation's executive officers committed the offence of failing to ensure the corporation complies with the provision.
(4) However, it is a defence for an executive officer to prove--
(a) if the officer was in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence--that the officer took all reasonable steps to ensure the corporation complied with the provision; or
(b) the officer was not in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence.
(5) In this section--
"convicted" of an offence means that the corporation has been found guilty of the offence, on a plea of guilty or otherwise, whether or not a conviction was recorded.