British Cinematograph Films.
which exemption is granted under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 5; or
(b) makes any false statement in a declaration furnished in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1)
of section 6,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction upon indictment to a fine of seventy thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months, or upon summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
10. Without prejudice to the provisions of section 42 of the Magistrates Ordinance, and section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, any person who attempts to commit any offence against this Ordinance or solicits or incites or endeavours to persuade another person to commit an offence or does any act preparatory to the commission of an offence shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to the same punishment and to be proceeded against in the same manner as if he had committed the offence.
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and acts pre-
Attempts paratory to of offences. (Cap. 227.) (Cap. 221)
commission
corporations.
11. Where a person convicted of an offence against this Offences by Ordinance is a body corporate, the chairman and every director and every officer of such body corporate at the time such offence was committed shall be guilty of that offence, unless he proves that the act or omission constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
lity for acts
agents, and
12. (1) Any person who would have been liable under Responsibi- this Ordinance to any pecuniary penalty for anything done or omitted if such thing had been done or omitted by him servants. personally shall be liable to the same penalty if such thing has been done or omitted by his partner, agent, or servant, acting in the capacity of partner, agent or servant.
Power of
employer to
himself on
of actual
(2) Where any employer is charged with an offence against this Ordinance, he shall be entitled to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the Court and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the employer proves to the satisfaction of the court-
(a) that he has used due diligence to enforce the
execution of this Ordinance, and
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