Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Parties to violation

• 521.27 (1) A person or entity is a party to a violation committed by another person or entity and is liable for the violation if it

  • (a) does or omits to do anything for the purpose of aiding that other person or entity to commit the violation;

  • (b) abets that other person or entity in committing the violation; or

  • (c) counsels that other person or entity to commit the violation.

• Marginal note:Violation by officers, etc.

  (2) If a corporation or an entity commits a violation, any of its directors, officers or agents or mandataries who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the violation is a party to and liable for the violation.

• Marginal note:Application

  (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply whether or not the person or entity that actually committed the violation is proceeded against under this Act.