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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-hexachloroethane-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Hexachloroethane) Regulations 1998",
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  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes regulation 3, or causes or permits another person to contravene that regulation, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3244",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/545/regulation/5",
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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."
}