158Bodies corporate and due diligence

158 Bodies corporate and due diligence

For the purposes of section 97 of the Regulatory Powers Act (about attributing contraventions of employees etc. to a body corporate), a body corporate does not contravene a civil penalty provision of this Act because of conduct of a person that the body corporate is taken to have engaged in, if it is established that the body corporate took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the conduct.