With respect to offences requiring intention as the element of fault, a body corporate or business organization is responsible for conduct committed on its behalf by its directors, officers or employees acting within the scope of their authority and identifiable as persons with authority over the formulation or implementation of the organization’s policy.
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 40
Business Organizations · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
With respect to offences requiring negligence as the required element of fault, or with respect to offences of strict liability, a business organization is responsible for conduct committed on its behalf by its directors, officers or employees acting within the scope of their authority and identifiable as persons with authority over the formulation or implementation of corporate policy, notwithstanding that no such director, officer or employee may be held individually liable for the same offence.