Part 4: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body Offences: supplementary Section 131: Offences by bodies corporate
This section deals with corporate liability. If an offence under Part 4 of the Act is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of a body corporate or is attributable to any neglect on the part of an officer, then the individual officer as well as the body corporate, commits the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. An officer of a body corporate means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer or anyone purporting to act in any such capacity.