Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

19Convictions under this Act and under health and safety legislationU.K.

(1)Where in the same proceedings there is—

(a)a charge of corporate manslaughter or corporate homicide arising out of a particular set of circumstances, and

(b)a charge against the same defendant of a health and safety offence arising out of some or all of those circumstances,

the jury may, if the interests of justice so require, be invited to return a verdict on each charge.

(2)An organisation that has been convicted of corporate manslaughter or corporate homicide arising out of a particular set of circumstances may, if the interests of justice so require, be charged with a health and safety offence arising out of some or all of those circumstances.

(3)In this section “health and safety offence” means an offence under any health and safety legislation.