General penalty

(1) A person convicted of an offence under these Regulations is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for 258 Gaming Control a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment; (2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. (3) Where a corporation is charged with an offence under these Regulations, such corporation may appear and plead to the charge by its representative, by entering a plea in writing; and, if either the corporation does not appear by its representative, or though it does so appear, fails to enter any plea, the court shall cause a plea of not guilty to be recorded and the trial shall proceed accordingly. (4) In this Regulation, the expression "representative" in relation to a corporation means a person duly appointed by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of doing an act or thing which the representative of a corporation is by this Regulation authorised to do, but a person so appointed shall not, by virtue only of being so appointed, be qualified to act on behalf of the corporation before any court for any other purpose. (5) A representative for the purposes of this Regulation need not be appointed under the seal of the corporation, and a statement in writing purporting to be signed by a managing director of the corporation, or by any person (by whatever name called) having, or being one of the persons having the management of the affairs of the corporation, to the effect that the person named in the statement has been appointed as the representative of the corporation for the purposes of this Regulation shall be admissible without further proof as prima facie evidence that that person has been so appointed. Gaming Control 259