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Regulation 14 Offences by bodies corporate

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(1)

Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a)

any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b)

any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

that person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2)

In paragraph (1)—

  • “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate;

  • “body corporate” includes a partnership in Scotland and, in relation to such a partnership, a reference to an officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.