The Keeping and Introduction of Fish (England and River Esk Catchment Area) Regulations 2015

Offences by bodies corporate

15.—(1) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent of, or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate, or

(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

that person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of an offence.

(2) Any penalty imposed on a body corporate by a court in Scotland on conviction of an offence under these Regulations is to be recovered by civil diligence in accordance with section 221 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(1).

(1)

1925 c. 46. Section 221 was amended by sections 226 and 227 of , and paragraph 23(a) and (b) of Schedule 5 to, the Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3); article 3(2)(3), and Schedule 1 to, S.S.I. 2009/369; section 61 of, and paragraph 25 of Schedule 3 to, the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17).