Animal Products Act 1999

Offences, penalties, and proceedings - Offences

142: Liability of body corporate

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"When a company breaks the rules, its bosses or workers can be held responsible if they were acting on the company's behalf."

If someone is taking a company to court for breaking a rule in the Animal Products Act 1999, they need to show the company's state of mind. You can do this by showing that one of the company's directors, employees, or agents had that state of mind while doing their job. This person must have been acting within the authority given to them by the company for their actions to count as the company's state of mind.

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Part 10Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Offences

142Liability of body corporate

  1. If, in the course of proceedings against a body corporate for an offence against this Act, it is necessary to establish the state of mind of the body corporate, it is sufficient to show that a director, employee, or agent of the body corporate, acting within the scope of that person's actual or apparent authority, had that state of mind.