# Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, Section 14: Application to partnerships


(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.
(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).
(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.
(4) This section does not apply to a partnership that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-14
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