Prohibition from operating without a licence

(1) No person shall operate, maintain, conduct, advertise or hold himself out as an operator of a residential care facility for children, without first obtaining a licence from the Registrar in accordance with the Act and these Regulations. (2) Any person who contravenes subregulation (1) above commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. (3) Where the person convicted of an offence under subregulation (2) above is an association, organization, partnership, group of persons, unincorporated entity, corporate entity, institution or agency, whether public or private, every person who at the date of the commission of the offence was a director or other officer, or a partner or member of such association, organization, partnership, group of persons, unincorporated entity, corporate entity, institution or agency by whatever name he might be designated, shall also be deemed to be 64 Social Service Agencies guilty of that offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and consent.