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(5) To avoid doubt, subsection (2) also does not affect the liability of the corporation for an offence under this Act, and applies whether or not the corporation is convicted of the offence.

(6) In this section—

“corporation” includes a limited liability partnership;
“director” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act (Cap. 50);
“officer”, in relation to a corporation, means any director, partner, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the corporation, and includes—
(a) any person purporting to act in any such capacity; and
(b) for a corporation whose affairs are managed by its members, any of those members as if the member were a director of the corporation;
“reasonable steps”, in relation to the commission of an offence, includes, but is not limited to, such action (if any) of the following kinds as is reasonable in all the circumstances:
(a) action towards—
(i) assessing the corporation’s compliance with the provision creating the offence; and
(ii) ensuring that the corporation arranged regular professional assessments of its compliance with the provision;
(b) action towards ensuring that the corporation’s employees, agents and contractors are provided with information, training, instruction and supervision appropriate to them to enable them to comply with the provision creating the offence so far as the provision is relevant to them;
(c) action towards ensuring that—
(i) the equipment and other resources; and