L-6.2 - Tobacco Control Act

Section 57.1.1 Disposition versions

2015-11-26

57.1.1. If a legal person or a representative, mandatary or employee of a legal person, partnership or association without legal personality commits an offence under this Act or the regulations, the directors or officers of the legal person, partnership or association are presumed to have committed the offence unless they establish that they exercised due diligence and took all necessary precautions to prevent its commission.

For the purposes of this section, in the case of a partnership, all partners, except special partners, are presumed to be directors of the partnership unless there is evidence to the contrary appointing one or more of them, or a third person, to manage the affairs of the partnership.

2015, c. 28, s. 67.