{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-criminal-sanctions-regulations-2015/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111127674",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Criminal Sanctions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-criminal-sanctions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Proceedings against partnerships",
  "text": "(1) Proceedings for an offence under these Regulations alleged to have been committed by a partnership must be brought in the name of the partnership (and not in that of any of its members).\n(2) In proceedings for such an offence brought against a partnership—\n(a) section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 (procedure on charge of offence against corporation) and Schedule 3 to the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (corporations) apply as they do in relation to a body corporate;\n(b) section 70 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (proceedings against bodies corporate) applies as it does in relation to a body corporate;\n(c) section 18 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 1945 (procedure on charge) and Schedule 4 to the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (corporations) apply as they do in relation to a body corporate.\n(3) Rules of court relating to the service of documents have effect in relation to proceedings for an offence under these Regulations as if the partnership were a body corporate.\n(4) A fine imposed on the partnership on its conviction of such an offence is to be paid out of the funds of the partnership.\n(5) In this regulation, references to a partnership do not include a Scottish partnership or a limited liability partnership.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1925 c. 86."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1945 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1981 S.I. 1675 (N.I. 26)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127674/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:26.269169+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."
}