{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/19",
  "legislation_title": "Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Application to partnerships",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act a partnership is to be treated as owing whatever duties of care it would owe if it were a body corporate.\n(2) Proceedings for an offence under this Act alleged to have been committed by a partnership are to be brought in the name of the partnership (and not in that of any of its members).\n(3) A fine imposed on a partnership on its conviction of an offence under this Act is to be paid out of the funds of the partnership.\n(4) This section does not apply to a partnership that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/401, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:38.238479+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."
}