A partnership or an unincorporated association could be registered as a fine defaulter if it failed to pay a fixed penalty arising from its ownership of a motor vehicle; that was because the statutory definition of defaulter depended on the use of the words ‘any person’, and thus the Interpretation Act applied to it. Paragraph 4(5) of the 1978 Act is of no assistance in construing the breadth of the definition of ‘person’ in Schedule 1 of the Act.
Judges:
Glidewell LJ
Citations:
(1989) 154 JP 118
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v RL and JF CACD 28-Aug-2008
Club, not members, prosecutable for breach
The Environment Agency appealed against dismissal of charges against the defendants who were officers in an unincorporated members’ golf club on whose land there had been pollution. The judge had ruled that the unincorporated association could have . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 05 May 2022; Ref: scu.277728