{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Liability of persons other than the principal offender",
  "text": "(1) Where the commission by a person of an offence under regulation 8 is due to anything that another person did or failed to do in the course of a business, that other person is guilty of the offence and may be proceeded against and punished, whether or not proceedings are taken against the first person.\n(2) Where a body corporate or a Scottish partnership commits an offence and it is proved that the offence was committed—\n(a) with the consent or connivance of a relevant person; or\n(b) as a result of the negligence of a relevant person,\nthat person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence.\n(3) A “relevant person” means—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of a body corporate;\n(b) in relation to a body corporate managed by its members, a member of that body performing managerial functions;\n(c) in relation to a Scottish partnership, a partner;\n(d) a person purporting to act as a person described in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1640/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:48.463195+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."
}