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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Offences


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Version Superseded: 01/04/2017
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Water Industry Act 1991, Cross Heading: Offences is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 28 February 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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OffencesE+W
210 Offences by bodies corporate.E+W
(1)Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Act and that offence 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, then 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.
211 Limitation on right to prosecute in respect of sewerage offences.E+W
Proceedings in respect of an offence created by or under any of the relevant sewerage provisions shall not, without the written consent of the Attorney-General, be taken by any person other than—
(a)a party aggrieved;
(b)a sewerage undertaker; or
(c)a body whose function it is to enforce the provisions in question.
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