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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-wales-order-2024/article-48",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2024/753",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Wales) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-wales-order-2024",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate",
  "text": "(1) If an offence against the Act is committed by a body corporate, and is shown to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer, or to be attributable to the neglect of such officer, that officer as well as the body corporate is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with functions of management as if that person were a director of the body.\n(3) “Officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, member of the committee of management, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 48 in force at 1.7.2024, see art. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/753/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:37.362829+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."
}