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Food Act 1984
52AOffences by employers
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52A Offences by employers
(1) If an employee contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations, the employer is taken to have contravened the same provision.
(2) It is a defence in proceedings against an employer for such a contravention if it is established that the employer could not, by the exercise of due diligence, have prevented the contravention.
(3) An employer may be proceeded against and convicted under a provision under this section whether or not the employee has been proceeded against or been convicted under that provision.
S. 52B inserted by No. 14/2001 s. 29.