Section 5: Offences by bodies corporate.

Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate 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 any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, any such director or other person mentioned in this section, as the case may be, as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence, and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as provided under subsection (1) of section 1 of this Act.