s 16 Liability for offences
16.—(1) Where an offence under this Act is committed by any person acting as an agent or employee of another person, or being otherwise subject to the supervision or instruction of another person for the purposes of any employment in the course of which the offence was committed, that other person shall, without affecting the liability of the firstmentioned person, be liable under this Act in the same manner and to the same extent as if that other person had personally committed the offence if it is proved that the act which constituted the offence was committed with that other person’s consent or connivance or that it was attributable to any neglect on that other person’s part. (2) Where any person, being an agent of or employee employed by a secondhand goods dealer in the course of the secondhand goods dealer’s business as such, wilfully does any act or commits any omission that constitutes an offence under this Act, that person shall also be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to the fine or punishment prescribed for that offence, as if that person were the person carrying on such business as a secondhand goods dealer.