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Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

2001 CHAPTER 16

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Provisions for Combatting Crime and Disorder.

Chapter 2: Provisions for combatting alcohol-related disorder (Sections 12 to 32)
Offences of permitting drunkenness and disorder in licensed premises and selling to drunken people
Section 26: Offences by body corporate

85.Subsections (1)-(2) provide that where the offences mentioned in section 25 are committed by a body corporate, the directors, managers, secretaries or other officers of that body corporate (including, in certain cases, its members) will also be liable for prosecution if it is proved that they had given their consent to the offences or had connived in their commission or failed to prevent them by neglecting appropriate duties.

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