Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person who
employs, causes, procures, or knowingly permits or suffers or connives with,
another person to contravene any provision of this Act commits an offence
punishable as is the provision contravened.
(2) Where proceedings
are taken against a person for or in respect of a contravention of any
provision of this Act it is no defence for that person to prove that he was
the agent or employee of any other person or was acting in pursuance of an
order or direction given by such other person unless he satisfies the court
that he had acted without knowledge, and could not reasonably be expected to
have known, that any provision of this Act had been contravened.
(3) It shall be a
defence for any person who would otherwise be liable for an offence under this
Act to prove that he had taken all reasonable means to enforce the provisions
of this Act and that the contravention occurred without his consent or
connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent it.