{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-63A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984/section-63A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/22",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-control-of-disease-act-1984",
  "path": "section/63A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63A",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate",
  "text": "(1) If an offence created by or under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved—\n(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer, or\n(b) to be attributable to any neglect on the part of an officer,\nthe officer (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n(2) “Officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity.\n(3) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member's functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 63A, 63B inserted (6.4.2010 for E., 26.7.2010 for W.) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), s. 170(3)(4), Sch. 11 para. 20; S.I. 2010/708, art. 6(e) (with Sch. 2); S.I. 2010/1547, art. 2(e) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/63A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:29.143511+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."
}