There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Statistics of Trade Act 1947, Section 13.
(1)Where a person convicted on indictment of an offence under the foregoing provisions of this Act is a body corporate, such of those provisions as limit the amount of the fine which may be imposed shall not apply; and the body corporate shall be liable to a fine of such amount as the court thinks just.
(2)Where any offence under the foregoing provisions of this Act has been committed by 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 the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.
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