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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-boats-marking-and-documentation-enforcement-order-1993/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-boats-marking-and-documentation-enforcement-order-1993/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2015",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Boats (Marking and Documentation) (Enforcement) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-boats-marking-and-documentation-enforcement-order-1993",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Defence of due diligence",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under article 3 of this Order founded on a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision of article 1 or 2 of the Commission Regulation to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2015/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:04.597502+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."
}