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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-safety-health-and-welfare-provisions-act-1956/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/49",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-safety-health-and-welfare-provisions-act-1956",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Defence available to persons charged with offences.",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for a person charged with a contravention of a provision of this Act or of regulations thereunder to prove that he used all due diligence to secure compliance with that provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/49/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:36.538694+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}