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15.—(1) Where an offence under this Part is committed by a body corporate and—
(a)it is committed with the consent or connivance of an officer; or
(b)it is attributable to any neglect on the officer’s part,
the officer as well as the body corporate is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2) “Officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity.
(3) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with that member’s functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.
(4) Where an offence under this Part is committed by a Scottish partnership and—
(a)it is committed with the consent or connivance of a partner; or
(b)it is attributable to any neglect on the partner’s part,
the partner as well as the partnership is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(5) In paragraph (4) “partner” includes a person purporting to act as a partner.
16.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person is convicted of an offence under this Part in respect of any matters which appear to the court to be matters which it is in that person’s power to remedy.
(2) Where paragraph (1) applies, the court may order the person convicted—
(a)in addition to or instead of imposing any punishment; and
(b)within such time as may be fixed by the order,
to take such steps as may be specified in the order for remedying the matters in respect of which the person was convicted.
(3) The time fixed by an order under paragraph (2) may be extended or further extended by order of the court on an application made before the end of the time as originally fixed or extended under this paragraph, as the case may be.
(4) Where a person is ordered under paragraph (2) to remedy any matters, that person is not liable under regulation 11 or 13 in respect of those matters in so far as they continue during the time fixed by the order or any further time allowed under paragraph (3).
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