{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-120",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-120.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/26",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000",
  "path": "section/120",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate.",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate 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) a person purporting to act in such a capacity,\nhe as well as the body corporate commits the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (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 corporate.\n(3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner, he as well as the partnership commits the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/120",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:44.870444+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."
}