{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-act-1972/section-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-act-1972/section-8A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/66",
  "legislation_title": "Poisons Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-act-1972",
  "path": "section/8A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate etc",
  "text": "(1) If an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,\nthat person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) The reference in subsection (1) to a director, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, is a reference to a member of the body corporate.\n(3) If an offence under this Act is committed by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—\n(a) a partner, or\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in that capacity,\nthat person, as well as the partnership, is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 8-8A substituted for s. 8 substituted (26.3.2015 for specified purposes, 20.4.2015 for specified purposes, 26.5.2015 in force in so far as not already in force) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(2)(e), Sch. 21 para. 10; S.I. 2015/994, art. 5; S.I. 2015/994, art. 6(p)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/66/section/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:30.792921+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."
}