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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2010/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491942",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A failure to comply with any of the provisions of regulations 9 to 24 shall be an offence.\n(2) The Commission may not bring proceedings in respect of a failure by a registered person to comply with any of those provisions unless—\n(a) the alleged failure is one in respect of which the Commission has given a warning notice to the registered person under section 29 of the Act;\n(b) that warning notice specified a time within which the registered person must take action to secure compliance pursuant to section 29(2)(c)(ii) of the Act; and\n(c) the registered person did not secure compliance within the specified time.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £50,000.\n(4) In any proceedings for an offence under this regulation, it is a defence for the registered person to prove that they took all reasonable steps or exercised all due diligence to ensure that the provision in question was complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491942/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:40.666835+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."
}