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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1992/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "A person who contravenes regulation 3, 4, 5 or 6 or causes or permits another person to contravene one of those regulations shall be guilty of an of fence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/31/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:31:13.582262+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."
}