{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/63",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Exception as to liability",
  "text": "A person shall not 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 in any case in which he can show that he took all reasonable steps to prevent that contravention.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 in operation at 29.3.2004, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/63/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:06.629668+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."
}