# Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969, Section 5: Penalty for failure to insure.


An employer who on any day is not insured in accordance with this Act when required to be so shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale; and where an offence under this section committed by a corporation has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or facilitated by any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the corporation, he, as well as the corporation shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/57/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employers-liability-compulsory-insurance-act-1969/section-5
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.