25. Liability of certain persons in respect of offences committed by bodies corporate or unincorporated

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body of persons, then-

(a)

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

(b)

if that body of persons is a firm, every partner of that firm ; or

(c)

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

(d)

if that body of persons is an unincorporated body, the President, Manager, Secretary and every other officer of that unincorporated body, shall be deemed to be guilty of such offence :

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

Read on from s 26