(1) Every person commits an offence against this Act who promotes or conducts, or is engaged in, any contest in respect of which any of the provisions of this Act are not complied with.
(2) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any wilful neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Compare: 1927 No 35 s 68