{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-of-pollution-incidents-regulations-1987/regulation-7.",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-of-pollution-incidents-regulations-1987/regulation-7..json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/586",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Reporting of Pollution Incidents) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reporting-of-pollution-incidents-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/7.",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any breach of regulation 3 or 5 shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1,000 or on conviction on indictment by a fine.\n(2) It shall be a defence for a person charged under this regulation to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised 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/1987/586/regulation/7.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:49.853537+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."
}