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(1)If a senior manager of a body corporate or partnership (“the organisation”) acting within the actual or apparent scope of their authority commits a relevant offence after this section comes into force, the organisation is also guilty of the offence.
This is subject to subsection (3).
(2)“Relevant offence” means an act which constitutes—
(a)an offence listed in Schedule 12 (“a listed offence”),
(b)an attempt or conspiracy to commit a listed offence,
(c)an offence—
(i)under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (England and Wales and Northern Ireland: encouraging or assisting crime) in relation to a listed offence, or
(ii)under the law of Scotland of inciting the commission of a listed offence, or
(d)aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of a listed offence.
(3)Where no act or omission forming part of the relevant offence took place in the United Kingdom, the organisation is not guilty of an offence under subsection (1) unless it would be guilty of the relevant offence had it carried out the acts that constituted that offence (in the location where the acts took place).
(4)In this section—
“body corporate” includes a body incorporated outside the United Kingdom, but does not include—
a corporation sole, or
a partnership that, whether or not a legal person, is not regarded as a body corporate under the law by which it is governed;
“partnership” means—
a firm or other entity of a similar character to one within paragraph (a) or (b) formed under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
“senior manager”, in relation to a body corporate or partnership, means an individual who plays a significant role in—
the making of decisions about how the whole or a substantial part of the activities of the body corporate or (as the case may be) partnership are to be managed or organised, or
the actual managing or organising of the whole or a substantial part of those activities.
Commencement Information
I1S. 196 in force at 26.12.2023, see s. 219(3)(a)
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