The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) Regulations 2019

Offences by bodies corporate

15.—(1) If an offence under regulation 14 is committed by a body corporate, Scottish partnership or other unincorporated association and is shown to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer, or to be attributable to the neglect of such officer, that officer as well as the body corporate, Scottish partnership or other unincorporated association is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with functions of management as if that person were a director of the body.

(3) “Officer” means—

(a) in relation to a body corporate—

(i) a director, member of the committee of management, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity;

(ii) where the affairs of the body are managed by its members, a member;

(b) in relation to a Scottish partnership, a partner;

(c) in relation to an unincorporated association other than a Scottish partnership, a person who is concerned in the management or control of the association.