Cap. 378 Art. 10Liability of trader for acts of his employees, etc.

(1) Where an offence or an infringement under this Act or any regulation made thereunder is committed by an employee or other person acting on behalf of a trader, the trader shall also be guilty of the offence or the infringement committed by the employee or other person acting on his behalf unless he can prove that he has exercised all reasonable diligence to prevent the commission of the offence or the infringement by the employee or other person acting on behalf of the trader.

(2) Where an offence or an infringement of any provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or involvement of or to be attributable to any gross negligence on the part of a person being a director, manager, secretary or other officer however so described of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he was responsible for the said offence or infringement.