Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

14Application to partnerships

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(1)For the purposes of this Act a partnership is to be treated as owing whatever duties of care it would owe if it were a body corporate.

(2)Proceedings for an offence under this Act alleged to have been committed by a partnership are to be brought in the name of the partnership (and not in that of any of its members).

(3)A fine imposed on a partnership on its conviction of an offence under this Act is to be paid out of the funds of the partnership.

(4)This section does not apply to a partnership that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed.