50 Offences by bodies corporate.U.K.
(1)Where an offence under this Act (including any provision of Part III as applied by regulations made under section 41 of this Act) or under regulations made under section 42 of this Act has been committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2)Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 50 extended (with modifications) (12.6.1993) by S.I. 1993/1251, art. 2(2), Sch. 2
S. 50 extended (with modifications) (Jersey) (1.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/2881, art. 2, Sch. Pts. I, II
S. 50 extended (with modifications) (Guernsey) (17.1.1998) by S.I. 1997/2989, art. 2(2), Sch. 2
S. 50 applied (with modifications) (6.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3059, art. 3(2), Sch. 4
C2S. 50 extended (Jersey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the extending S.I.) by The Maritime Security (Jersey) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/265), art. 2, Sch.