Section 13 Offences: general.

Proceedings for an offence under section 2, 5, 9 or 10 or under regulations made under section 11 shall not be instituted in England and Wales except—

Proceedings for an offence under section 2, 5, 9 or 10 or under regulations made under section 11 shall not be instituted in Northern Ireland except—

Where an offence committed by a body corporate under section 2, 5, 9 or 10 or under regulations made under section 11 is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be 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, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (3) shall apply in relation to acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

If an offence under section 9 or under regulations made under section 11 is committed outside the United Kingdom, proceedings for the offence may be taken, and the offence may for all incidental purposes be treated as having been committed, in any place in the United Kingdom.

Section 3 of the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act M1 1878 (restriction on prosecutions) shall not apply to proceedings for an offence to which subsection (1) of this section applies.

In section 27 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act M2 1982 (which restricts prosecutions for certain offences), at the end of subsection (2) (which excludes offences under certain enactments from the operation of that section) there shall be added—

“(g)

Part I of the Petroleum Act 1987”.