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Part IV · Offences and Penalties

13. Offences committed by a body of persons

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body of persons, then, if such body –

(a)

is a body corporate, every director and officer of that body corporate;

(b)

is a firm, every partner of that firm ;

(c)

if such body of persons is a trade union, every officer of that trade union; and

(d)

is a body other than a firm or trade union and unincorporated, the president, manager, secretary and every officer of such body, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence:

Provided that, no such person shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this Act, if such person proves that such offence was committed without his knowledge or he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.

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