Legislation – Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025
Part 1Border security
Chapter 2Other border security provision
Offences: things for use in immigration crime and advertising of unlawful immigration services
19Liability for offence under section 17 committed by a body
(1)
This section applies where an offence under section 17 is committed by a body.
(2)
If the offence is committed with the consent or connivance of a person (“P”) who is—
(a)
a relevant person in relation to the body, or
(b)
a person purporting to act in the capacity of a relevant person in relation to the body,
P (as well as the body) commits the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(3)
In this section—
“body” means a body corporate, a partnership or an unincorporated association other than a partnership;
“relevant person”, in relation to a body, means—
(a)
in the case of a body corporate other than one whose affairs are managed by its members, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body;
(b)
in the case of a limited liability partnership or other body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, a member who exercises functions of management with respect to it;
(c)
in the case of a limited partnership, a general partner (within the meaning given by section 3 of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907);
(d)
in the case of any other partnership, a partner;
(e)
in the case of an unincorporated association other than a partnership, a person who exercises functions of management with respect to it.