Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to create a new offence that, in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, is to be called corporate manslaughter and, in Scotland, is to be called corporate homicide; and to make provision in connection with that offence.
Citation	2007 c. 19
Introduced by	Home Secretary John Reid, 20 July 2006
Territorial extent	England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland
Dates
Royal assent	26 July 2007
Commencement	6 April 2008
Repealed	—
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Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
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Revised text of statute as amended

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seeks to broaden the law on corporate manslaughter in the United Kingdom. The Act created a new offence respectively named corporate manslaughter in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and corporate homicide in Scotland.

The Act received the royal assent on 26 July 2007 and came into force on 6 April 2008.^[2]