Official Secrets Act 1972 s 28
s 28 Criminal liability of corporation or firm
Where the person guilty of an offence under this Act is a company or corporation or a member or servant of a partnership or firm, every director and officer of the company or corporation or every member of the partnership or firm, as the case may be, shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act or omission constituting the offence took place without his knowledge, consent or connivance and that he exercised such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and to all other circumstances.
Malay text (authoritative)
Tanggungan jenayah oleh perbadanan atau firma
Jika orang yang bersalah atas sesuatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini ialah suatu syarikat atau perbadanan atau seorang anggota atau pekhidmat bagi sesuatu perkongsian atau firma, tiap-tiap pengarah dan pegawai bagi syarikat atau perbadanan itu atau tiaptiap anggota bagi perkongsian atau firma itu, mengikut manamana yang berkenaan, adalah bersalah atas kesalahan itu juga melainkan jika dia membuktikan bahawa perbuatan atau peninggalan yang menjadi kesalahan itu telah berlaku tanpa pengetahuan, persetujuan atau pembiarannya dan bahawa dia telah menjalankan apa-apa usaha untuk mencegah berlakunya kesalahan itu sebagaimana yang sepatutnya dijalankan olehnya dengan mengambil kira jenis fungsinya dan segala hal keadaan lain.
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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).
