{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1998/regulation-39",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2451",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Exception as to liability",
  "text": "No person shall be guilty of an offence by reason of contravention of regulation 3(2) or (6), 5(1), 7(3), 15, 16(2) or (3), 17(1), 27(5), 30 (insofar as it relates to the installation of a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of more than 14 kilowatt gross heat input), 33(1), 35 or 36 of these Regulations in any case in which he can show that he took all reasonable steps to prevent that contravention.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 in force at 3.10.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2451/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:52.447994+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."
}