{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-diving-safety-regulations-2002/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1587",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Diving Safety) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-diving-safety-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes a provision of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a time not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or a fine, or both.\n(2) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under these Regulations to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1587/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:54:39.919460+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."
}