law: Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 
  15. Determination of
  
  the persons responsible for the offence in certain cases. – 
  If the person
  
  committing an offence made punishable by this Act or the regulation of any
  
  abetment thereof is a firm or other association of individuals or a company or
  
  a local authority, shall or any of the partners or members or directors thereof
  
  as well as the firm, Dissociation of individuals, company or local authority
  
  shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence or abetment and shall be liable to
  
  be proceeded against and punished accordingly:
  Provided that where a
  
  firm, association or company has given notices in writing to the Chief
  
  Inspector and the Inspector of the port where any dock work is being carried
  
  that it has nominated, -
  a.     
  
    In
  
  the case of' a any of its partners;
  b.    
  
    In
  
  the case of an association, any of its members;
  c.     
  
    In
  
  the case of a company, any of its directors,
  Who is resident, in
  
  each case in any place to which this Act extends and who is in each case either
  
  in fact in charge of the management of, or holds the largest number of shares
  
  in, such firm, association or company, to assume the responsibility of the
  
  person in change of any dock work for the purposes of this Act, such partner,
  
  member or director, as the case may be, shall, so long as he continues to so aside
  
  and be in change of hold the largest number of shares as aforesaid, he deemed
  
  to he the person in change of such dock work for the purposes of this Act
  
  unless a notice in writing cancelling, his nomination or stating that he has
  
  ceased to be a partner, member or director, as the case may be, is received by
  
  the Chief Inspector.