{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bee-diseases-and-pests-control-scotland-order-2007/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bee-diseases-and-pests-control-scotland-order-2007/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2007/506",
  "legislation_title": "The Bee Diseases and Pests Control (Scotland) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bee-diseases-and-pests-control-scotland-order-2007",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate",
  "text": "(1) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under the Act by virtue of this Order and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of–\n(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,\nthat person as well as the body corporate is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “director” in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate and “body corporate” includes a partnership in Scotland, and, in relation to such a partnership, a reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in force at 1.12.2007, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/506/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:10:21.580063+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."
}