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4c. 30 neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of the body corporate, or of any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, this section shall apply in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

6.—(1) In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires,—
 * “acquire” includes hire;
 * “send” includes deliver, and “sender” shall be construed accordingly;
 * “unsolicited” means, in relation to goods sent to any person, that they are sent without any prior request made by him or on his behalf.

(2) For the purposes of this Act any invoice or similar document stating the amount of any payment, and not stating as prominently (or more prominently) that no claim is made to the payment, shall be regarded as asserting a right to the payment.

7.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971.

(2) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY C. H. BAYLIS, C.B.

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