OffencesS
9.—(1) Where a person contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of these Regulations, that person shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Where an offence under these regulations committed by a Scottish partnership or a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity (or, in the case of a partnership, a partner or person who was purporting to act as such), that person as well as the partnership or body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.