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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Coal and Other Safety-Lamp Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-safety-lamp-mines-explosives-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Defence",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence consisting of a contravention of regulation 4(3), regulation 5(1), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7), regulation 7(2), (4) or (5), regulation 9(4), regulation 22(3), regulation 31(2) or regulation 36, it shall be a defence for the manager concerned to prove that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/208/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:05:51.074363+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."
}