Violations by body corporate

Where the Authority is satisfied that the allegations made against a holder of an operating licence are true and that the acts complained of were done by a body corporate, every person who at the time when the acts were done was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be regarded individually, severally and jointly as having responsibility therefor unless any individual person proves that acts complained of occurred without his knowledge, consent or connivance, and that he exercised such diligence to prevent their occurrence as he ought to have exercised, having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances. 44