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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Public policy decisions, exclusively public functions and statutory inspections",
  "text": "(1) Any duty of care owed by a public authority in respect of a decision as to matters of public policy (including in particular the allocation of public resources or the weighing of competing public interests) is not a “relevant duty of care”.\n(2) Any duty of care owed in respect of things done in the exercise of an exclusively public function is not a “relevant duty of care” unless it falls within section 2(1)(a), (b) or (d).\n(3) Any duty of care owed by a public authority in respect of inspections carried out in the exercise of a statutory function is not a “relevant duty of care” unless it falls within section 2(1)(a) or (b).\n(4) In this section—\n“exclusively public function” means a function that falls within the prerogative of the Crown or is, by its nature, exercisable only with authority conferred—\n(a)by the exercise of that prerogative, or\n(b)by or under a statutory provision;\n“statutory function” means a function conferred by or under a statutory provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/401, art. 2 (with art. 2(3)(c))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/3",
    "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."
}