{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-placing-on-the-market-regulations-2008/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-placing-on-the-market-regulations-2008/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2164",
  "legislation_title": "The Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-placing-on-the-market-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Liability of persons other than the principal offender",
  "text": "(1) Where the commission by a person of an offence under these Regulations is due to anything which another person did or failed to do in the course of a business, that other person shall be guilty of the offence and may be proceeded against and punished, whether or not proceedings are taken against the first person.\n(2) Where a body corporate commits an offence and it is proved that the offence was committed—\n(a) with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body corporate; or\n(b) as a result of the negligence of an officer of the body corporate,\nthe officer, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence.\n(3) In paragraph (2) a reference to an officer of a body corporate includes a reference to—\n(a) a director, manager, company secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate;\n(b) a person purporting to act as a director, manager, company secretary or other similar officer; and\n(c) if the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, a member.\n(4) In this regulation references to a “body corporate” include references to a partnership in Scotland, and in relation to such partnership, any reference to a director, manager, company secretary or other similar officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (N.I.) (17.10.2026) by The Batteries (Placing on the Market) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/1053), regs. 1(2), 19(1) (with reg. 19(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2164/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:35:08.991104+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}