Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsLiability of directors and certain officers of a body corporate for offences committed by that body
| 66. Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a member, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that 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 that offence as he ought to have exercised in the circumstances having regard to the nature of the offence. |