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s 19
(I) Where any offence against any provision of this Offences by body Act or any regulations made under section 24 or any coporate condition imposed under section 7 has been committed and by by a body corporate, any person who at the time of the employees and agents. commission of the offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate 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, 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. Presumption. •20. In any prosecution for any offence under this Act, if it is proved that any person did any act in connection with the organisation, operation, or management of a care centre, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that that person took part in the management of the care centre. Conduct of prosecution.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Jika apa-apa kesalahan terhadap mana-mana Kesalahanperuntukan Akta ini atau mana-mana peraturan yang oleh dibuat di bawah seksyen 24 atau apa-apa syarat yang pertubuhan dikenakan di bawah seksyen 7 telah dilakukan oleh perbadanan dan oleh sesuatu pertubuhan perbadanan, maka mana-mana orang pekerjayang pada masa perlakuan kesalahan itu adalah seorang pekerja dan pengarah, pengurus, setiausaha atau pegawai lain yang seumpamanya bagi pertubuhan perbadanan itu atau mana-mana orang yang berupa bertindak atas apa-apa sifat sedemikian, atau mana-mana orang yang dalam apa-apa cara atau sehingga apa-apa takat bertanggungjawab bagi pengurusan mana-mana hal ehwal pertubuhan perbadanan itu, atau membantu dalam pengurusan sedemikian, adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan melainkan jika dia membuktikan bahawa kesalahan itu telah dilakukan tanpa persetujuannya atau pembiarannya dan bahawa dia telah menjalankan usaha untuk mencegah berlakunya kesalahan itu sebagaimana
yang sepatutnya telah dijalankan olehnya memandangkan jenis fungsi-fungsi atas sifat itu dan memandangkan semua hal keadaan.
(2) Jika mana-mana orang (dalam subseksyen ini disebut "prinsipal") boleh dikenakan apa-apa hukuman atau penalti di bawah Akta ini bagi apa-apa perbuatan, peninggalan, pengabaian atau keingkaran, dia boleh dikenakan hukuman atau penalti yang sama bagi tiaptiap perbuatan, peninggalan, pengabaian atau keingkaran mana-mana pekerja atau ejennya, atau pekerja ejennya itu, jika perbuatan, peninggalan, pengabaian atau keingkaran itu telah dilakukan oleh pekerja prinsipal dalam perjalanan pekerjaannya, atau oleh ejen apabila bertindak bagi pihak prinsipal, atau oleh pekerja ejen itu dalam perjalanan pekerjaannya dengan ejen itu atau selainnya bagi pihak ejen itu. Anggapan.
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).
