Under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, a person in charge can escape liability for an offence…
The second proviso to s.66(1) protects a person who proves "that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent" it.…
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Under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, a person in charge can escape liability for an offence by a company if he proves:
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The second proviso to s.66(1) protects a person who proves "that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent" it. Delegating the work, holding no shares or not being a director does not, by itself, relieve a person in charge of liability.