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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Traceability and Labelling) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Offences by Bodies Corporate",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under these Regulations committed by a body corporate or a Scottish partnership 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 any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity or, in the case of a partnership, a partner or a person who was purporting to act as such, that person as well as the body corporate or partnership shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, the provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the members' functions of management as if the member was a director of the body corporate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/438/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:22.213770+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."
}