Territorial Extent Schedule 15: Private gaming and betting Part 18: Miscellaneous and General Section 341: Offence committed by body
846.If a body (such as a company) commits an offence under the Act, persons of authority in the body (known as officers) may be prosecuted if the offence resulted from their consent, connivance or their negligence. The body may be prosecuted also. Officers can include directors, managers, secretaries and members of a body. Where a body is a partnership then each partner is individually responsible for offences arising in these circumstances. Unincorporated bodies and their officers may also be prosecuted in the same way.
847.Subsection (7) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations dealing with the application of this section to bodies formed outside the United Kingdom.