{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-94",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-94.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/30",
  "legislation_title": "Food Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984",
  "path": "section/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Offences by corporations.",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under this Act, or any regulations or order made under this Act, which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—\n(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,\nhe as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 94(1) repealed (except as regards offences under Pt. 3 of this Act) by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53: 1, 2), ss. 54, 59(4), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 94(2) repealed by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 54, 59(4), Sch. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/30/section/94",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:26.993897+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."
}