{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-56B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-56B.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1627",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627",
  "path": "article/56B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56B",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate etc",
  "text": "1. Where an offence under this Regulation is 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.\n2. 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.\n3. 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.\n4. Where an offence under this Regulation has been committed by a Scottish partnership and it is proved that the offence—\n(a) has been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner of the firm or a person purporting to act as such a partner, or\n(b) is attributable to any neglect on the part of such a person,\nthat person (as well as the partnership) is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ch. 5A inserted (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1627/article/56B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:35.338359+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."
}