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59 PDFTitle:FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCEGazette Number:53 of 1999
Section:13Heading:Liability of proprietorVersion Date:23/07/1999

(1) Except as may be otherwise provided by regulations made under this Ordinance, the proprietor of every industrial undertaking in or in respect of which any offence against this Ordinance has been committed shall be guilty of a like offence, and shall be liable to the penalty prescribed for such offence.
(2) It shall be no defence to a prosecution of the proprietor of an industrial undertaking for an offence against this Ordinance that the offence was committed without his knowledge or consent or that the actual offender has not been convicted of the offence.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to an offence under section 6B or 6BA (15). (Added 71 of 1989 s. 9. Amended 53 of 1999 s. 7)