law: The Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Act, 2009 
  34. Offences by
  
  companies. – 
  1.     
  
    Where
  
  an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, every person who at
  
  the time the offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to,
  
  the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the
  
  company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be
  
  proceeded and punished accordingly: Provided that nothing contained in this
  
  sub-section shall render such person liable to any punishment provided in this
  
  Act, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that
  
  he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
  2.     
  
    Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been
  
  committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed
  
  with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the
  
  part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such
  
  director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty
  
  of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished
  
  accordingly. Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
  a.      ''company" means
  
  anybody corporate and includes a co-operative society registered or deemed to
  
  be registered under any law for the time being in force, a firm or other
  
  association of individuals; and
  b.     "director",
  
  in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.