(1) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so 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.
(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his or her functions of management as if he or she were a director or manager of the body corporate.
(3) A person may be charged with having committed an offence under these Regulations even if the body corporate concerned is not charged with having committed an offence under these Regulations in relation to the same matter.
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