{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1986/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1986/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/50",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1986",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate.",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under any of the benefit Acts which has been 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, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and be liable to be proceeded against accordingly.\n(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) above 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sections 5IA, 51B inserted (29.7.1988) by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Sch. 10, para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sections 5IA, 51B inserted (29.7.1988) by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Sch. 10, para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. VI (ss. 51-65) power to amend conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 22(3)(4)(b), (with savings in Sch. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/50/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:52.965433+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."
}