Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who, (a) without lawful excuse uses any premises as a Social Service Agency when the proprietor thereof or such premises are not registered or when there is not in force a licence granted to him by the Registrar authorising him to use such premises for a Social Service Agency; or (b) uses or displays the word “registered” or “licensed” along with the name, title or description of any premises purporting to be a Social Service Agency when the premises and the Agency are not registered and licensed; or (c) having been granted a licence to use any premises for the purpose of a Social Service Agency uses such premises otherwise than in accordance with the terms and conditions of such licence; or 12 (d) fraudulently procures or attempts to procure the registration and licensing of any premises as a Social Service Agency; or (e) forges or falsifies any book, register or other record required to be maintained under this Act; or (f) obstructs, prevents or otherwise hinders the entry into any Social Service Agency of the Registrar or any person authorised by him to carry out any examination, inspection, scrutiny or check therein, or assaults or otherwise hinders any such officer in the performance of his duties under this Act; or (g) fails to comply with any requirements of this Act or any regulations or order made there under or with any lawful direction given to such person by the Registrar, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (2) Any registration or licence which has been obtained fraudulently or by means of fraudulent representation shall be invalid and of no effect. (3) Where such offence is continued after conviction such person shall be liable in respect of each day during which such offence was continued to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. (4) Any offence against the provisions of this Act committed by any servant or agent of the proprietor shall be deemed to be an offence committed by the proprietor, unless he establishes that such offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of that offence. (5) Where a person by whom an offence under this Act or any regulation made there under is committed as a body corporate every person who at the time of the commission of the offence 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 deemed to be guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of that offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.