224. Where a legal person is convicted of an offence under this Act, every officer, director or chief executive officer and every agent of the legal person who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the offence is a party to the offence, and is liable to the punishment provided for the offence whether or not the legal person has been prosecuted or convicted therefor.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 24, s. 231; 1992, c. 61, s. 520; 1997, c. 73, s. 85.