{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1095",
  "legislation_title": "The Hops Certification Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Defence available to person charged with an offence",
  "text": "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 EU provisions relevant provisions he shall be deemed to have established that defence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.10.1979, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1095/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:13:41.973490+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."
}