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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

Section 22: Offence: bodies corporate, &c

54.Section 22 defines the liability of bodies corporate, officers of bodies, and members of partnerships in relation to the criminal offence in section 21. Subsection (1) provides that a body shall be treated as knowing a fact about an employee if a person who has responsibility within that body for an aspect of the employment knows the fact. Subsection (2) provides that where an offence under section 20 is committed by a body corporate with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body, the officer as well as the body shall be treated as having committed the offence. Subsection (3) defines an officer of a body for the purpose of the section, and subsection (4) relates to partnerships.

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