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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1999/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3244",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-injurious-substances-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "Any person who contravenes regulation 3(1), regulation 4(1) or regulation 4(2), or causes or permits another person to contravene any of those provisions, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3244/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:12.609998+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."
}