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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-reservoirs-enforcement-etc-scotland-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030844",
  "legislation_title": "The Reservoirs (Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-reservoirs-enforcement-etc-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Defence",
  "text": "It is a defence to a charge in proceedings for an offence under paragraph 6 for the reservoir manager to show both—\n(a) that the failure to comply with the stop notice was as a result of either an accident which could not reasonably have been foreseen or natural cause or force majeure which was exceptional and could not reasonably have been foreseen; and\n(b) that the reservoir manager—\n(i) took all practicable steps to prevent an uncontrolled release of water from the reservoir; and\n(ii) took all practicable steps as soon as was reasonably practicable to rectify the failure; and\n(iii) provided particulars of the failure to SEPA as soon as practicable after the failure arose.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030844/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:31.504523+00:00"
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  "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."
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