Consumer Credit Act 2025 · Updated to 31 Dec 2025 · Part IX · Enforcement
114. Offence by employee, officer, agent, etc.
Feedback & supportWhere an offence is committed by an employee, officer, director, partner, controller or agent of a person, in the course of the employment of the employee or officer, in carrying out the director’s or partner’s function, in carrying out the controller’s function or while the agent is acting on the person’s behalf, respectively, such person is deemed to have committed that offence and be liable to the same penalty for the offence committed by its employee, officer, director, partner, controller or agent.
director
“director” has the meaning assigned to it in the Companies Act 2016, and includes a reference to a person occupying or acting in the position of a director of a corporation, by whatever name called and whether or not validly appointed to occupy, or duly authorized to act in, such position;
Nothing under subsection (1) shall absolve an employee, officer, director, partner, controller or agent from any liability for an offence.
controller
“controller” means a person as defined in subsection 47(6) or subsection 64(6), as the case may be;