Part 2Animal welfare

Offences and penalties

I145Offences by bodies corporate etc.

1

Where an offence under this Part, or under regulations made under this Part, is committed by a body corporate and is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to the neglect of—

a

a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or

b

a person purporting to act in any such capacity,

that person (as well as the body corporate) commits the offence.

2

Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies to acts and omissions by members in exercising functions of management as if they were directors of the body corporate.

3

Where an offence under this Part, or under regulations made under this Part, is committed by a Scottish partnership and is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to the neglect of a partner, that partner (as well as the partnership) commits the offence.