Section 157 Offences by bodies corporate.C1C2C3
England, Wales and Scotland
Where an offence under any provision of this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.
Annotations
Modifications
- C1
S. 157 applied (1.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1056, regs. 1(1), 20(6)
S. 157: powers to make corresponding provisions conferred (27.7.1999) by 1999 c. 24, s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 20(1)(a)
- C2
S. 157 applied (S.) (27.3.2011) by The Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/228), regs. 1(1), 30(5) (with regs. 31-33)
- C3
S. 157 modified (16.7.2026) by The Modification of the Law (British Steel Limited Property Transfer) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/833), regs. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. para. 5