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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-36",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Defence",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 21 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, in any proceedings for an offence consisting of a contravention of Part 2 of these Regulations it shall be a defence for any person to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of that offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (28.5.2012) by The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/179), reg. 33(1) (with regs. 3(5), 33(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 36 in operation at 1.3.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 388, amended by SR. 2003 No 454"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/31/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:09.836436+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."
}