Section 18: Offences by bodies corporate.

(1) Where any offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, 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 the offence as he ought to have exercised having regards to the nature of his functions in that capacity and in all the circumstances.
(2) In this section, the expression "director", in relation to any body corporate established directly by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on any industry or part of an industry or undertaking being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by the members thereof, means a member of that body.