Section 41
Offences committed by bodies corporate, etc.
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Section 41
Where —
(a)
an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, firm, society or other body of persons; and
(b)
that offence is proved to have been committed with the authority, consent or connivance of any person who, at the time of the commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer or a partner of the company, firm, society or other body of persons or was purporting to act in any such capacity,that person shall also be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.