{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/2",
  "legislation_title": "Psychoactive Substances Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Offences by directors, partners, etc",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate and it is proved that the offence—\n(a) has been committed with the consent or connivance of a person falling within subsection (2), or\n(b) is attributable to any neglect on the part of such a person,\nthat person (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or similar officer of the body corporate;\n(b) any person who was purporting to act in such a capacity.\n(3) 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 that management, as if the member were a director of the body corporate.\n(4) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a Scottish firm and it is proved that the offence—\n(a) has been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner in the firm or a person purporting to act as such a partner, or\n(b) is attributable to any neglect on the part of such a person,\nthat person (as well as the firm) is guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 26.5.2016 by S.I. 2016/553, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/2/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:34.525412+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."
}