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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-19",
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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/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Convictions under this Act and under health and safety legislation",
  "text": "(1) Where in the same proceedings there is—\n(a) a charge of corporate manslaughter or corporate homicide arising out of a particular set of circumstances, and\n(b) a charge against the same defendant of a health and safety offence arising out of some or all of those circumstances,\nthe jury may, if the interests of justice so require, be invited to return a verdict on each charge.\n(2) An organisation that has been convicted of corporate manslaughter or corporate homicide arising out of a particular set of circumstances may, if the interests of justice so require, be charged with a health and safety offence arising out of some or all of those circumstances.\n(3) In this section “health and safety offence” means an offence under any health and safety legislation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 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/19",
    "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."
}