Part 4: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body Offences: supplementary Section 132: Offences by partnerships
This section provides for when an offence has been committed by a partnership, such as a GP partnership, and allows proceedings to be brought in the name of the partnership as well as the individual partners.
	If an offence under Part 4 of the Act is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner or is attributable to any neglect on the part of a partner, then the individual partner (which includes a person purporting to act as a partner), as well as the partnership commits the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
	A fine imposed on a partnership must be paid out of the partnership assets. If an individual partner is convicted of an offence the fine would be paid by the partner as an individual.
	For the purposes of proceedings, Schedule 3 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 applies as it applies in relation to a body corporate.