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PREVENTION OF COPYRIGHT PIRACY manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, commits the offence.

(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

(3) Where an offence under this Ordinance committed by a partner in a partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any act on the part of, any other partner of the partnership or any person concerned in the management of the partnership, that other partner or the person concerned in the management of the partnership commits the like offence.

27. Disposal of optical discs, etc., where a person is charged

Without prejudice to section 20, where a person is charged with an offence under this Ordinance, the court may, if it is satisfied that—
 * (a) any optical disc seized, removed or detained by an authorized officer under section 18(2) in connection with the offence has been manufactured in contravention of this Ordinance; or
 * (b) any machinery, equipment or other thing so seized, removed or detained under section 18(2) or any machinery, equipment or other thing sealed by an authorized officer under section 18(5) has been used in connection with any offence under this Ordinance,

order that the optical disc, machinery, equipment or thing be—
 * (i) forfeited to the Government; or
 * (ii) disposed of in such other way as the court may think fit,

whether or not the person charged is convicted of the offence with which he was charged.

28. Protection of informers

(1) Save where, in the opinion of the court, justice so requires, the name or identity of any informer and the information given by such informer shall not be disclosed in any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance.

(2) The court may make any order and adopt any procedure necessary to prevent any such disclosure.