Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsLiability of directors and certain officers of a body corporate for offence under this Act committed by that body
| 21. Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body or was purporting to act in such capacity shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in such capacity and in all the circumstances. |