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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/17",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
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  "number": "6",
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  "text": "(1) Where an offence under paragraph 5 which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—\n(a) a 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 that offence and liable to be proceeded against accordingly.\n(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, sub-paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with the member’s functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.\n(3) Where an offence under paragraph 5 which has been committed by a partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, the partner as well as the partnership is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/17/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:42.714892+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."
}