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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/157",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hours of Work) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Onus of proving what is reasonably practicable",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under any of these Regulations consisting of a failure to comply with a duty or requirement to do something so far as is reasonably practicable, it shall be for the accused to prove that it was not reasonably practicable to do more than was in fact done to satisfy the duty or requirement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/157/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:18:11.779690+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."
}