{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-2003/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-2003/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3075",
  "legislation_title": "The Money Laundering Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/money-laundering-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate etc.",
  "text": "(1) If an offence under regulation 3 committed by a body corporate is shown—\n(a) to have been committed with the consent or the connivance of an officer; or\n(b) to be attributable to any neglect on his part;\nthe officer as well as the body corporate is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) If an offence under regulation 3 committed by a partnership is shown—\n(a) to have been committed with the consent or the connivance of a partner; or\n(b) to be attributable to any neglect on his part;\nthe partner as well as the partnership is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(3) If an offence under regulation 3 committed by an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) is shown—\n(a) to have been committed with the consent or the connivance of an officer of the association or a member of its governing body; or\n(b) to be attributable to any neglect on the part of such an officer or member;\nthat officer or member as well as the association is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(4) If 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 his functions of management as if he were a director of the body.\n(5) In this regulation—\n(a) “partner” includes a person purporting to act as a partner; and\n(b) “officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary, chief executive, member of the committee of management, or a person purporting to act in such a capacity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3075/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:43:36.690514+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."
}