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Defence available to person charged with offence not committed personally.
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136.—In any proceedings under this Act which, by virtue of subsection (1) or (2) of section 133 are taken against a person in respect of the contravention by a person other than himself of—
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(a) a provision of the Act, of an order made thereunder or of regulations, being a provision which expressly imposes on that other person or on persons of a class to which, at the time of the contravention, he belonged, a duty or requirement or expressly prohibits him or persons of such a class or all persons from doing a specified act, or
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it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he used all due diligence to secure compliance with the provision, prohibition, restriction or requirement, as the case may be.
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