ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HERITAGE PROTECTION ACT 1984 - SECT 25 Body corporate responsible for acts of employees and agents

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HERITAGE PROTECTION ACT 1984 - SECT 25

  (1)   Where, at a particular time, a member of the governing body, director, employee or agent of a body corporate:

  (a)   intends to do, or not to do, a particular act; or

  (b)   knows, or ought reasonably to know, of the existence of a declaration made under Part   II;

paragraph   ( a) or (b), as the case may be, shall be deemed to apply to the body corporate at that time.

  (2)   Any conduct engaged in on behalf of a body corporate by a member of the governing body, director, employee or agent of the body corporate, or by any other person at the direction or with the consent or agreement (whether express or implied) of one of the first - mentioned persons, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been engaged in also by the body corporate.

  (3)   In subsection   ( 2), a reference to engaging in conduct is a reference to doing, or failing or refusing to do, any act or thing.

  (4)   In relation to a body corporate that does not have a governing body, a reference in this section to a member of the governing body is a reference to a member of the body corporate.