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NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT 1993 - SECT 62

Offences by corporations

62 Offences by corporations

(1) If a corporation contravenes, whether by act or omission, any provision of this Act or the regulations, each person who is a director or is concerned in the management of the corporation is taken to have contravened the same provision if the person knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a contravention of section 54 (1) or (2).
(2) A person may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision pursuant to this section whether or not the corporation has been proceeded against or convicted.
(3) This section does not affect any liability imposed on a corporation for an offence committed by the corporation against this Act or the regulations.
(4) Without limiting any other law or practice regarding the admissibility of evidence, evidence that an officer, employee or agent of a corporation (while acting in his or her capacity as such) had, at any particular time, a particular intention, is evidence that the corporation had that intention at that time.



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