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Electricity Act 1992

Miscellaneous provisions - General electricity matters - Offences

164: Directors and officers of bodies corporate

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“Company bosses can get in trouble if their company breaks the rules”

If a company breaks any rules in this law or the rules made under section 169, the people in charge of the company can also get in trouble. This includes the directors and managers. They can be found guilty if it’s shown that they knew about, allowed, or agreed to the action that broke the rules.

If you’re found guilty because you were in charge of a company that broke the rules, you might have to pay a fine. The fine won’t be more than what the company has to pay.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
General electricity matters: Offences

164Directors and officers of bodies corporate

  1. If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against any provision of this Act or against any regulations made under section 169, every director and every person concerned in the management of the body corporate is himself or herself guilty of the offence if it is proved that the act constituting the offence took place with that person's knowledge, authority, permission, or consent.

  2. Every person who is guilty of an offence pursuant to subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding that imposed on the body corporate.

Compare
  • 1970 No 143 s 53(3)
Notes
  • Section 164(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).