Sea Pollution Act 1991

Offences by body corporate.

31

F32[31.Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of such body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that officer or person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F32

Substituted (1.09.1999) by Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act 1999 (18/1999), s. 15(b), S.I. No. 295 of 1999.

Editorial Notes:

E239

Section applied with necessary modifications to Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act 1999 (1.09.1999) by Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act 1999 (18/1999), s. 17, S.I. No. 295 of 1999.