{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-inflation-act-1973/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-inflation-act-1973/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/9",
  "legislation_title": "Counter-Inflation Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-inflation-act-1973",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences by unincorporated bodies.",
  "text": "1)—(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where an offence is alleged to have been committed under this Act by an unincorporated body . . .\n(a) proceedings for the offence shall be brought in the name of that body (and not in that of any of its members),\n(b) for the purpose of any such proceedings any rules of court relating to the service of documents shall have effect as if that body were a corporation, and\n(c) any fine imposed on conviction shall be enforceable, by way of execution, diligence or otherwise, against the funds of that body.\n(5) Where an offence mentioned in subsection (4) above is an offence punishable on conviction on indictment, section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and Schedule 3 to the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 shall have effect as if the said body were a corporation.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 3, 4, 6(7), 11–13, 16, 17(7)(10), 18(1)–(3)(6), 20(3)(8) repealed by Price Commission Act 1977 (c. 33), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Price Commission Act 1977 (c. 33), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 8 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 86(39:1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43(82)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S.18(4)(5) repealed (1.1.2011) by Competition Act 1980 (c. 21, SIF 124:1), s. 33(4), Sch. 2 and S.I. 1980/497"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/9/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:57.650622+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."
}