Section 20
of Public Service Tribunal Act 1977
Section 20
Where any offence has been committed under this Act, whether or not any person has been convicted in respect thereof, and such offence has been committed or purports to have been committed in the name or on behalf of any trade union or an association of public officers not being a trade union, every office-bearer of such trade union or such association managing or assisting in the management of such trade union or such association at the time of the commission of such offence shall be liable to the punishment prescribed in subsection (3), unless he establishes to the satisfaction of the court that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
(2)
Any office-bearer of a trade union or an association of public officers not being a trade union managing or assisting in the management of such trade union or such association as referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to be prosecuted under this section, notwithstanding that he may not have taken part in the commission of the offence.
(3)
Any office-bearer of a trade union or an association of public officers not being a trade union managing or assisting in the management of such trade union or such association as referred to in subsection (1) shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.