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Regulation 10 Defence available to person charged with an offenceI1

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In any proceedings for an offence under these regulations, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence; and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, if that person proves that he took all the precautions and exercised all the diligence required by the F1F2EU provisions relevant provisions he shall be deemed to have established that defence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 10 substituted (E.W.S) (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/824), regs. 1, 2(10) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, regs. 1(2)(b), 11(2)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10

Commencement

I1

Reg. 10 in force at 1.10.1979, see reg. 1(1)