Explanatory Notes

Serious Crime Act 2007

2007 CHAPTER 27

30th October 2007

Commentary on Sections

Part 2: Encouraging or Assisting Crime.Inchoate offences

Consequential alterations of the law

Section 62: No individual liability in respect of corporate manslaughter

226.This section prevents the offences in Part 2 from applying to corporate manslaughter. This means that an individual cannot be guilty of an offence of encouraging or assisting the offence of corporate manslaughter.