... had reason for knowing that the girl who fewer than sixteen was under the care of her father at the time, therefore the conviction under s55 OAPA 1861 could not be sustained. Apart from that, many strict liability offences are primarily regulatory offences directed at businesses, whose owners may be prosecuted if they do not take adequate steps to ensure the business operates properly. Health and Safety offences in particular are often of this kind: s.10 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, for example, makes it an offence to supply consumer goods which fail to comply with the general safety requirement, and the fact that the supplier does not know of the defect is no defence. The case of Gammon (Hong Kong) Ltd v Attorney General 4 where the defendants were involved in constructing an area of a building, when the part where they were building fell down due to ...

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