{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-act-1992/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-act-1992/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/42",
  "legislation_title": "Transport and Works Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-act-1992",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Offences by bodies corporate etc.",
  "text": "(1) Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in such a capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence.\n(2) In subsection (1) above “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.\n(3) Where, in Scotland, an offence under this Part committed by a partnership or by an unincorporated association other than a partnership is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner in the partnership or (as the case may be) a person concerned in the management or control of the association, he, as well as the partnership or association, shall be guilty of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 wholly in force at 15. 7. 1992 see s. 70 and S.I. 1992/1347, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/42/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:42.977920+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."
}