Where an offence is committed under these Regulations by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent, connivance or approval of any person, being -
(a) a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or
(b) a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
that person as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if that person were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.