সব আইন
Health & Safety Law
c. 19
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
legislation.gov.uk-এ দেখুনসারসংক্ষেপ
Creates the offence of corporate manslaughter (corporate homicide in Scotland). An organisation is guilty if the way in which its activities are managed or organised causes a death and amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed to the deceased. A substantial element of the breach must be in the way senior management managed or organised activities.
মূল পয়েন্ট
- Offence of corporate manslaughter — organisation's activities managed in a grossly negligent way causing death (s.1)
- Senior management element — a substantial element of the breach must be attributable to the way senior management managed or organised activities (s.1(3))
- Relevant duty of care — includes employer duties, occupier duties, duties in connection with supplying goods/services, and construction/maintenance activities (s.2)
- Unlimited fine — no imprisonment (organisation-level offence only) (s.1(6))
- Remedial orders — court may order steps to remedy the breach (s.9)
- Publicity orders — court may require the organisation to publicise its conviction (s.10)
- Replaces common law offence of corporate manslaughter based on identification principle