Where an offence under this Act or under any of the rules made thereunder is committed by a body corporate (whether or not the body corporate has been prosecuted), every director, secretary or manager of the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he had exercised all due 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 of the case.
Malay text (authoritative)
Kesalahan dilakukan oleh pertubuhan perbadanan
Jika sesuatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini atau di bawah mana-
mana kaedah yang dibuat di bawahnya telah dilakukan oleh sesuatu pertubuhan perbadanan (sama ada pertubuhan perbadanan itu telah didakwa atau tidak), tiap-tiap pengarah, setiausaha atau pengurus pertubuhan perbadanan itu hendaklah disifatkan bersalah alas kesalahan itu melainkan jika dia membuktikan bahawa kesalahan itu telah dilakukan tanpa persetujuan atau pembiarannya dan bahawa dia telah menjalankan segala usaha wajar untuk menghalang pelakuan kesalahan itu sebagaimana yang patut dijalankan olehnya dengan mengambil kira jenis fungsinya atas sifat itu dan kepada segala hal keadaan kes itu.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (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).
