Part 1: Labour Market and Illegal Working Section 30: Application to partnerships
This section explains how section 27 applies to partnerships.
	Subsection (1) means that where a partnership is not regarded as a legal person and an offence is committed by a partner, another partner shall be guilty of an offence under section 27 if it is proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of another partner or was attributable to the neglect of that other partner. The other partner shall be liable to prosecution and punishment as well as the first.
	Where the partnership is a legal person, proceedings shall be brought against the partnership in the firm name (subsection 2).
	Subsection (3) applies certain criminal procedure including the rules of court relating to the service of documents to a partnership as if it were a body corporate.
	Subsection (4) requires a fine imposed on conviction for an offence to be paid out of the funds of the partnership.
	Subsection (5) provides that a partner as well as the partnership shall be guilty of an offence under section 27 where it is proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of that partner, or where it was attributable to the partner’s negligence. The partner is liable to prosecution and punishment.
	Subsection (6) applies this section to a person purporting to act as a partner.
	Subsection (7) explains that a partnership is not regarded as a legal person if it is not regarded as such under the law of the country under which it was formed.