Serious Crime Act 2007

30 Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships

(1) For the purposes of section 10 in its application to a serious crime prevention order against a body corporate or to the variation of such an order—

(a) a notice setting out the terms of the order or variation—

(i) is delivered to the body corporate in person if it is delivered to an officer of the body corporate in person; and

(ii) is sent by recorded delivery to the body corporate at its last-known address if it is so sent to an officer of the body corporate at the address of the registered office of that body or at the address of its principal office in the United Kingdom; and

(b) the power conferred by subsection (3) of that section is a power to enter any premises where the person exercising the power has reasonable grounds for believing an officer of the body corporate to be and to search those premises for the officer.

(2) If an offence under section 25 committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of—

(a) an officer of the body corporate; or

(b) a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity;

he (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(3) Nothing in this section prevents a serious crime prevention order from being made against an officer or employee of a body corporate or against any other person associated with a body corporate.

(4) In this section—

• “body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership;

• “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate; and

• “officer of a body corporate” means any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate.