Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1969

Punishment of offences

100 Increase of certain penalties under Acts of 1947 and 1959

In the sections of the Act of 1947 and the Act of 1959 specified in Schedule 8 to this Act, the amendments shown in that Schedule shall be made (being amendments to increase the penalties to which persons may be subject under those sections and in certain cases to provide for punishment on indictment as well as summarily).

101 Offences by corporations

(1) Where an offence under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Acts 1947 to 1966 or this Act, 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.

(2) In subsection (1) above, the expression " director", in relation to any body corporate established by or under an enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership an industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by the members thereof, means a member of that body corporate.