{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under these Regulations has been committed by a body corporate and it is proved that the offence—\n(a) was committed with the consent or connivance of a person falling within paragraph (2), or\n(b) is attributable to any neglect on the part of such a person,\nthat person (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate;\n(b) any person purporting to act in such a capacity.\n(3) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member, in connection with that management, as if the member were a director of the body corporate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.6.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1216/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:46.219572+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."
}