25. Liability of proprietor for acts of employees
Feedback & supportFor the purposes of this Act or any of its rules, every proprietor shall be liable for every act, omission, neglect or default of any agent or employee employed by him and acting within the scope of his employment, as fully and effectually as if the act, omission, neglect or default were done or committed by the proprietor; but so that nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the agent or employee, and provided that the liability of the proprietor shall not extend to imprisonment unless he is privy to the offence.
proprietor
“proprietor”, in relation to any entertainment, includes any person responsible for the management of any entertainment or any person who holds a licence issued under any written law relating to public entertainments and, in relation to any place from which in the opinion of the Comptroller of Entertainments Duty a person would be able to be a spectator or one of the audience of an entertainment in progress in some other place, includes the owner, tenant or person in possession or control of that place or any other person who receives payment for admission to that place;