PART 9Enforcement
CHAPTER 3Criminal offences, penalties and proceedings etc.
Proceedings: partnership or unincorporated association91.
(1)
Proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed by—
(a)
a partnership must be brought in the name of the partnership; or
(b)
an unincorporated association must be brought in the name of the association,
and not in that of its members.
(2)
A fine imposed on—
(a)
a partnership on its conviction of an offence is to be paid out of the funds of the partnership; and
(b)
an unincorporated association on its conviction of an offence is to be paid out of the funds of the association.
(3)
Rules of court relating to the service of documents are to have effect as if a partnership or unincorporated association were a body corporate.
(4)
In proceedings for an offence brought against a partnership or an unincorporated association—
(a)
section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 M1 (procedure on charge of offence against corporation) and Schedule 3 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 M2 (corporations) apply as they do in relation to a body corporate; and
(b)
section 18 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 1945 M3 (procedure on charge) and Schedule 4 to the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 M4 (corporations) apply as they do in relation to a body corporate.