Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006

45Offences by bodies corporate etc.S

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(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.

Commencement Information

I1S. 45 in force at 6.10.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/482, art. 2