Singapore legislation
Section 33
Section 33
Liability of partners, directors, etc.
(1)
Where an offence under this Act is committed by a corporation or other body corporate and the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of, any director, chairman, manager, secretary or other officer of the corporation or other body corporate he, as well as the corporation or body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2)
Where any agent or employee in the course of his employment does or omits to do any act, the doing of which or omission to do which by his principal or employer would be an offence under this Act that agent or employee shall be guilty of that offence.
(3)
Any person who would have been guilty of an offence if anything had been done or omitted to be done by him personally shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to the same penalty if that thing had been done or omitted to be done by his partner, agent or employee in the course of the partnership business or in the course of his employment, as the case may be, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the offence was committed without his knowledge or consent and that he took all reasonable precautions to prevent the doing of or omission to do that thing.
(4)
In this section —and includes an assistant or a deputy secretary.
Definition
“director”, “manager” and “officer” have the same meanings as in the Companies Act (Cap. 50);
Definition
“secretary” means —
in the case of a company incorporated under the Companies Act or under any corresponding previous written law, a secretary appointed under section 171 of that Act;
in the case of a body corporate formed or incorporated outside Singapore or any of its branches or subsidiaries, a person appointed to act in such capacity,
(5)
This section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other provisions of this Act. [28