{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-northern-ireland-2019/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-northern-ireland-2019/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/159",
  "legislation_title": "The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/invasive-alien-species-enforcement-and-permitting-order-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Transitional provision for non-commercial owners: commercial stocks",
  "text": "It is a defence to a charge of committing an offence under Article 3(1)(a) or (c) to show that the specimen to which the alleged offence relates—\n(a) was received from a keeper of commercial stocks in accordance with Article 15(3)(d); and\n(b) at all material times, was kept in contained holding and appropriate measures were in place to ensure that the specimen could not reproduce or escape.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in operation at 1.12.2019, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/159/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:46:01.796600+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."
}