Section 613: Liability of directors, &c. in case of offence by body corporate.

Housing Act 1985 · 1985 c. 68View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XVIII: MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

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