{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/christmas-day-and-new-years-day-trading-scotland-act-2007/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/christmas-day-and-new-years-day-trading-scotland-act-2007/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/13",
  "legislation_title": "Christmas Day and New Year's Day Trading (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/christmas-day-and-new-years-day-trading-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under this Act committed by a body of persons—\n(a) was committed with the consent or connivance of—\n(i) a person concerned, or purporting to be concerned, in the management or control of the body; or\n(ii) a relevant person; or\n(b) was attributable to any neglect on the part of such person,\nthat person, as well as the body, is guilty of the offence.\n(2) In this section—\na “body of persons” means a body corporate, a partnership, a body of trustees or an unincorporated association other than a partnership; and\n“relevant person” means a director, secretary or other officer of a body corporate, a partner in a partnership, a trustee of a trust or any member of an unincorporated association.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/13/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:53.924714+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."
}