Victorian Numbered Acts

HERITAGE ACT 2017 (NO. 7 OF 2017) - SECT 233

    (1)     If a body corporate commits an offence against a provision specified in subsection (2), an officer of the body corporate also commits an offence against the provision if the officer—

        (a)     authorised or permitted the commission of the offence by the body corporate; or

        (b)     was knowingly concerned in any way (whether by act or omission) in the commission of the offence by the body corporate.

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), the following provisions are specified—

        (a)     section 59;

        (b)     section 60(1) and (2);

        (c)     section 64(3);

        (d)     section 67(2);

        (e)     section 70(1), (2) and (3);

        (f)     section 71(3);

        (g)     section 72(4);

        (h)     section 73(1);

              (i)     section 75(2);

        (j)     section 76(1);

        (k)     section 77(6);

        (l)     section 78(5);

        (m)     section 80(1), (3) and (5);

        (n)     section 89(1), (2) and (3);

        (o)     section 127(1) and (2);

        (p)     section 128(3);

        (q)     section 129(1);

        (r)     section 147(1), (2) and (3);

        (s)     section 197(4);

        (t)     section 209(4) and (5).

    (3)     Without limiting any other defence available to the officer, an officer of a body corporate may rely on a defence that would be available to the body corporate if it were charged with the offence with which the officer is charged and, in doing so, the officer bears the same burden of proof that the body corporate would bear.

    (4)     An officer of a body corporate may commit an offence against a provision specified in subsection (2) whether or not the body corporate has been prosecuted for, or found guilty of, an offence against that provision.

    (5)     In this section—

body corporate has the same meaning as corporation has in section 57A of the Corporations Act;

"officer " in relation to a body corporate means—

        (a)     a person who is an officer (as defined by section 9 of the Corporations Act) of the body corporate; or

        (b)     a person (other than a person referred to in paragraph (a)), by whatever name called, who is concerned in, or takes part in, the management of the body corporate.

    (6)     This section does not affect the operation of section 323 or 324 of the Crimes Act 1958 .

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