{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2007/1351",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-northern-ireland-order-2007",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Offences: companies, etc.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of an offence under Article 13...or 40 ..., section 20(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33) applies with the omission of the words “the liability of whose members is limited” and where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, applies in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.\n(2) If an offence under Article 13...or 40 ... is committed by a partnership (whether or not a limited partnership) and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to neglect on the part of—\n(a) a partner, or\n(b) a person purporting to act as a partner,\nhe (as well as the partnership) commits the offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(1) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 91(2)(a), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(1) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 91(2)(b), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(2) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 91(3)(a), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(2) repealed (10.9.2012 immediately after S.I. 2012/2157 comes into force) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 9 para. 91(3)(b), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2(aa)(v) (bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 22 partly in operation; art. 22 not in operation at date of making see. art. 1(3); art. 22 in operation for certain purposes at 12.10.2009 by S.R. 2009/346, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2007/1351/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:04.019457+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."
}