{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021/schedule-6/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021/schedule-6/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/858",
  "legislation_title": "The Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Liability of persons other than the principal offender",
  "text": "(1) Where the commission by a person (“P”) of an offence under these Regulations is due to anything which another person (“S”) did or failed to do in the course of business, S is guilty of that offence and may be proceeded against and punished, whether or not proceedings are taken against P.\n(2) Where a body corporate commits an offence under these Regulations, a relevant person is also guilty of the offence where the offence was committed by the body corporate—\n(a) with the consent or connivance of a relevant person; or\n(b) as a result of the negligence of a relevant person.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) a “relevant person” means—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate;\n(b) in relation to a body corporate managed by its members, a member of that body performing managerial functions; or\n(c) a person purporting to act as a person described in paragraphs (a) or (b).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4 in force at 16.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/867",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/858/schedule/6/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T03:31:46.066945+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."
}