Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 10 · Legal Proceedings
191. Offences by body corporate
Feedback & supportWhere an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he or she as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Director
“Director” means the Director of Marine appointed under section 4 and includes the Deputy Director of Marine;
Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member’s functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.