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Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993 s 38

Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993 s 38

s 38 Offences by body corporate, etc.

(1) Where any offence against any provision of this Act or the regulations has been committed by a body corporate, partnership or society, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, a partner in the partnership or an officebearer of the society, as the case may be, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, or was in any manner or to any extent responsible for the management of any of the affairs of such body corporate, partnership or society, or was assisting in such management, shall be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised, having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances. (2) Where any person (in this subsection referred to as “the principal”) would be liable under this Act to any punishment or penalty for any act, omission, neglect or default, he shall be liable to the same punishment or penalty for every such act, omission, neglect or default of any employee or agent of his, or of the employee of such agent, if such act, omission, neglect or default was committed by the principal’s employee in the course of his employment, or by the agent when acting on behalf of the principal, or by the employee of such agent in the course of his employment by such agent or otherwise on behalf of the agent.

Malay text (authoritative)

Kesalahan oleh pertubuhan perbadanan, dsb.

(1) Jika apa-apa kesalahan terhadap mana-mana peruntukan Akta ini atau peraturan-peraturan telah dilakukan oleh sesuatu pertubuhan perbadanan, perkongsian atau pertubuhan, mana-mana orang yang pada masa kesalahan itu dilakukan ialah seorang pengarah, pengurus, setiausaha atau pegawai serupa itu yang lain dalam pertubuhan perbadanan itu, pekongsi dalam perkongsian itu atau pemegang jawatan dalam pertubuhan itu, mengikut mana-mana yang berkenaan, atau berupa sebagai bertindak atas mana-mana sifat sedemikian, atau dengan apa-apa cara atau hingga apaapa takat bertanggungjawab atas pengurusan apa-apa hal ehwal pertubuhan perbadanan, perkongsian atau pertubuhan itu, atau membantu dalam pengurusan sedemikian, melakukan kesalahan itu melainkan jika dia membuktikan bahawa kesalahan itu telah dilakukan tanpa diizinkan atau dibiarkan olehnya dan bahawa dia telah menjalankan segala daya usaha untuk mencegah pelakuan kesalahan itu sebagaimana yang sepatutnya dijalankan olehnya, setelah mengambil kira jenis fungsinya atas sifat itu dan setelah mengambil kira segala hal keadaan. (2) Jika mana-mana orang (dalam subseksyen ini disebut “prinsipal”) akan boleh dikenakan apa-apa hukuman atau penalti di bawah Akta ini kerana apa-apa perbuatan, ketinggalan, kecuaian atau keingkaran, dia hendaklah boleh dikenakan hukuman atau penalti yang sama bagi tiap-tiap perbuatan, ketinggalan, kecuaian atau keingkaran pekerja atau ejennya, atau pekerja ejen itu, jika perbuatan, ketinggalan, kecuaian atau keingkaran itu telah dilakukan oleh pekerja prinsipal itu dalam perjalanan pekerjaannya, atau oleh ejen itu apabila bertindak bagi pihak prinsipal itu, atau oleh pekerja ejen itu dalam perjalanan pekerjaannya dengan ejen itu atau selainnya bagi pihak ejen itu.

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Text as at 1 March 2013 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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