Section 34, The Postal Services Regulatory Agency Act, 2012

(1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisionsof this Act commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a minimum fine of ten million Leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, that offence shall be deemed to have been committed by every director, corporate secretary or manager of the body corporate unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and the circumstances of the case. (3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a partnership or firm, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a partner in that firm or was purporting to act in that office shall be deemed to have committed the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and the circumstances of the case. 16 17 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE. GAZETTE N O . 31 OF 21ST J UNE , 2012. Passed in Parliament this 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand and twelve. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. T HIS P RINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament.