Malaysia legislation
Section 116
Section 116
(2)
Where any offence is committed by a person by reason of his failure to comply with any provision of this Act by or under which he is required or directed to do anything within a particular period, that offence, for the purposes of subsection (1),
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Langkawi International Yachting Companies shall be deemed to continue so long as the thing so required or directed to be done by him remains undone, notwithstanding that the period has elapsed.
(3)
For the purposes of any provision of this Act which provides that an officer of a Langkawi company, foreign Langkawi company or guarantor company who is in default is guilty of an offence against this Act or is liable to a penalty, the expression
“officer who is in default” or any like phrase means any officer of the company who knowingly and wilfully—
(a)
is guilty of the offence; or
(b)
authorizes or permits the commission of the offence.
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