MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 55
MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ACT 1973 - SECT 55
55 . Offences by corporations
(1) Where a
corporation is convicted of an offence against this Act, every person who at
the time of the commission of the offence was a director or member of the
governing authority of the corporation or an officer concerned in the
management of the corporation and who authorised or permitted the commission
of the offence is guilty of the like offence.
(2) A person referred
to in subsection (1) may, on the request of the prosecutor, be convicted on
the proceedings on which the corporation is convicted if the court is
satisfied that the person had reasonable notice that the prosecutor intended
to make that request.
[Section 55 amended: No. 84 of 2004 s. 80.]