Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The executive officers of a corporation must ensure the corporation complies with this Act.
(2) If a corporation commits an offence against a provision of this Act, each of the corporation's executive officers also commits an offence, namely, the offence of failing to ensure the corporation complies with the provision.
Maximum penalty—the maximum penalty for the contravention of the provision by an individual.
(3) Evidence that a corporation has been convicted of an offence against a provision of this Act is evidence each of the corporation's executive officers committed the offence of failing to ensure the corporation complies with the provision.
(4) However, it is a defence for an executive officer to prove—
(a) if the officer was in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence—that the officer took reasonable steps to ensure the corporation complied with the provision; or
(b) the officer was not in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence.
(5) In this section—
executive officer, of a corporation, means a person who is concerned with, or takes part in, the corporation's management, whether or not the person is a director or the person's position is given the name of executive officer.