If a company breaks the law, you can be in trouble too if you are a director of that company. You will be in trouble if the company broke the law with your permission, or if you did not try to stop the company from breaking the law. You can check the Land Transport Act for more information.

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79J: Liability of employers and principal, or

"Employers are responsible if their workers break transport laws"

79L: Court may require convicted transport service licence holder to sit examination, or

"Court can make transport service licence holders take a test if they break rules"

Part 6AOffences relating to transport services and penalties

79KLiability of directors of bodies corporate

If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this Part, every director of the body corporate also commits the offence and is liable to the same penalty if it is proved that—
the act or omission that constituted the offence took place with his or her express or implied authority; and
he or she failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent or stop that act, or remedy that omission.

Compare

1989 No 74 s 5(4)

Notes

Section 79K: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 38 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).