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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1994/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1886",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Exception as to liability",
  "text": "No person shall be guilty of an offence by reason of contravention of regulation 3(2) or (5), 5(1), 7(3), 15, 16(2) or (3), 17, 30, 33(1) or 35 in any case in which he can show that he took all reasonable steps to prevent that contravention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/550",
      "affecting_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1886/regulation/37",
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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."
}