Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Summary Offences Act 1966 - SECT 55

Liability of masters

55. Liability of masters

Where it appears to the court on the hearing of a charge for an offence
against this Act that the person committing the offence has acted only under
the orders or by the sanction of his master or employer and that the master or
employer is in fact the offending party, either solely or as well as the
person so offending, the court may by summons or warrant order the master or
employer to appear to answer the charge as if it had originally been filed
against the master or employer and may either discharge the person first
charged or may hear and determine the charge against both as the court thinks
fit.