Section 28

Where an offence against this Act or any regulations or rules made thereunder committed by a body corporate, partnership, association or other body of persons is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body corporate, partnership, association or other body of persons, or any person who was purporting to act in that capacity, he as well as that body corporate, partnership, association or other body of persons is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.