Industrial Co-Ordination Act 1975 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006
19. Liability of certain persons for offences committed by company, partnership or body of persons
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Where an offence under this Act or any rule made thereunder has been committed by a person or a manufacturer being a company, partnership or body of persons, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, manager or other officer serving in a managerial capacity or was a partner of the company, partnership or body of persons or purported to act in any such
manufacturer
“manufacturer” means a person who is engaged in any manufacturing activity;
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capacity shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge, consent and connivance and that he had exercised all necessary diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and all the prevailing circumstances.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as exempting a company, partnership or body of persons from any liability for an offence under this Act or any rule made thereunder or under any other written law.
For the purposes of this section the expressions “company”
and “partnership” shall respectively have the meanings assigned to those expressions in the written laws relating to companies and to partnerships.
Terms defined in s 2
manufacturer
Defined · s 2“manufacturer” means a person who is engaged in any manufacturing activity;