Section 5: Offences by bodies corporate.
(1) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Act and the offence 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 similar officer of the body corporate or of any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity he, as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "director" in relation to a body corporate established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.
Cite this section
Section 5, EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES ACT (1978).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/exclusive-economic-zones-act/section/5/