Section 251: Offences by bodies corporate

Housing Act 2004 · 2004 c. 34View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 7: Supplementary and final 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 such a capacity,

he as well as the body corporate commits the offence and is 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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