PART XV — Administration and Enforcement · Offences and Punishment

Officers, etc., of corporations

Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2004-08-31

Current text

Where a corporation commits an offence under this Act, any officer, director or agent of the corporation who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the offence is a party to and guilty of the offence and is liable on conviction to the punishment provided for the offence whether or not the corporation has been prosecuted or convicted.

Source: Justice Laws Website. Not an official version.

Historic text

This section has not been amended since the start of the point-in-time record on 31 August 2004.

Earlier versions: Justice Laws point-in-time versions of the Act (from 31 August 2004), and CanLII (under “Versions”). On Justice Laws, each version of section 242 links to the one before it.

Enacting and amending legislation

1970-71-72, c. 63, s. 1“242”

Text before 2004 is found in the annual Statutes of Canada cited above. Application and coming-into-force provisions are not part of the consolidation; see the amending Acts.

Cross-references

No other section of the Act refers to this section, and it refers to no other section.

References are generated from the statutory text and list other sections of the Act only.

Citation

Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 242.