# Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, Section 11: Application to Crown bodies


(1) An organisation that is a servant or agent of the Crown is not immune from prosecution under this Act for that reason.
(2) For the purposes of this Act—
(a) a department or other body listed in Schedule 1, or
(b) a corporation that is a servant or agent of the Crown,
is to be treated as owing whatever duties of care it would owe if it were a corporation that was not a servant or agent of the Crown.
(3) For the purposes of section 2—
(a) a person who is—
(i) employed by or under the Crown for the purposes of a department or other body listed in Schedule 1, or
(ii) employed by a person whose staff constitute a body listed in that Schedule,
is to be treated as employed by that department or body;
(b) any premises occupied for the purposes of—
(i) a department or other body listed in Schedule 1, or
(ii) a person whose staff constitute a body listed in that Schedule,
are to be treated as occupied by that department or body.
(4) For the purposes of sections 2 to 7 anything done purportedly by a department or other body listed in Schedule 1, although in law by the Crown or by the holder of a particular office, is to be treated as done by the department or other body itself.
(5) Subsections (3)(a)(i), (3)(b)(i) and (4) apply in relation to a Northern Ireland department as they apply in relation to a department or other body listed in Schedule 1.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-11
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