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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1977/932",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Container Bottles (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Defences",
  "text": "Where an offence under Regulation 10(1)(a) or 10(1)(b) is alleged to have been committed it shall be a defence for any person charged with the offence to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 29.6.1977, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/932/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:58:30.262532+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."
}