New clause 20 - Application of Act to bodies corporate

Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:15 pm on 28 April 2004.

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'(1) A licence under this Act may be granted to a body corporate.

(2) A licence granted to a body corporate authorises activities carried on by the body through such persons representing, or acting on behalf of, the body as are named or otherwise specified in the licence.

(3) If an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is shown—

(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the body corporate, or

(b) to be attributable to any neglect on his part,

the officer, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(4) In subsection (3) ''officer'' means—

(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b) any person purporting to act in any such capacity.

(5) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (3) 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.'.—[Jim Sheridan.]

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.