If an officer, employee or agent of a body corporate or an employee or agent of a licence holder engages in conduct on behalf of the body corporate or licence holder within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority, the body corporate or licence holder must be taken, for the purposes of prosecution for an offence against this Act, also to have engaged in the conduct unless the body corporate or licence holder establishes that it took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the conduct.
S. 145 substituted by No. 44/2015 s. 7.