PART 5Miscellaneous

Officers of a body corporate etc.

20.—(1) If an offence under this Order committed by a body corporate is shown—

(a)to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body corporate; or

(b)to be attributable to any neglect on the officer’s part,

the officer as well as the body corporate is guilty of an offence.

(2) Paragraph (1) also applies in relation to an institution which is not a body corporate, with the substitution for the reference to an officer of the body of a reference—

(a)in the case of a partnership, to a partner;

(b)in the case of an unincorporated body other than a partnership—

(i)where the body’s affairs are managed by its members, to a member of the body;

(ii)in any other case, to a member of the governing body.