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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110811475",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Innocent publication defence",
  "text": "In any proceedings against a person for an offence under regulation 6 committed by the publication of advertising it is a defence for that person to prove that—\n(a) he is a person whose business it is to publish or to arrange for the publication of advertising;\n(b) he received the advertising for publication in the ordinary course of business; and\n(c) he did not know and had no reason to suspect that its publication would amount to an offence under regulation 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110811475/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:41.509697+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."
}