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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pollution-prevention-and-control-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-69",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2012/9780111018514",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pollution-prevention-and-control-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/69",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Courts: admissibility of evidence",
  "text": "(1) A statement by an operator made to SEPA for the purposes of complying with regulation 52 may only be used in a prosecution for an offence under regulation 67(1)(f) where in giving evidence the operator makes a statement inconsistent with it.\n(2) Where—\n(a) by virtue of a condition of a permit, an entry is required to be made in any record as to the observance of any condition of the permit, and\n(b) the entry has not been made,\nthat fact is admissible as evidence that that condition has not been observed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2012/9780111018514/regulation/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:36:29.262975+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."
}