{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-safety-and-security-penalty-regulations-2019/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-safety-and-security-penalty-regulations-2019/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Customs Safety and Security (Penalty) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-safety-and-security-penalty-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions from liability to a penalty",
  "text": "(1) A person is not liable to a penalty if the person or that person's representative satisfies—\n(a) HMRC; or\n(b) on appeal, the tribunal;\nthat there is a reasonable excuse for the conduct that contravened a relevant safety and security rule.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) it is not a reasonable excuse that the contravention is attributed, in whole or in part, to the conduct of a person on whom reliance to perform any task was placed.\n(3) Where, by reason of conduct falling within regulation 3(1), a person is prosecuted for an offence that conduct does not give rise to liability to a penalty.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 20.2.2019, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/121/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:34.612617+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."
}