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Regulation 7 Corporate bodies and partnerships

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(1)

Where a body corporate or a partnership is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of–

(a)

any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate;

(b)

any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity; or

(c)

in the case of a partnership, a partner or any person who was purporting to act as such,

any such person, as well as the body corporate or partnership, shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, includes a member of the body corporate.