{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-security-secretary-of-state-security-directions-regulations-2018/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/408",
  "legislation_title": "The Nuclear Security (Secretary of State Security Directions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-security-secretary-of-state-security-directions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A responsible person commits an offence (“a non-compliance offence”) where the responsible person fails to—\n(a) comply with a security direction or further direction; or\n(b) ensure that the responsible person's officers, employees and contractors—\n(i) are made aware of any measures given in the security direction or further direction which are relevant to those persons; and\n(ii) take all steps necessary to comply with such measures.\n(2) It is a defence for a responsible person charged with a non-compliance offence to prove that the responsible person took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.\n(3) Where an enforcement officer exercises a relevant power it is an offence for a person to fail to comply with any requirement imposed under those powers.\n(4) It is an offence for a person to prevent or attempt to prevent any other person from—\n(a) appearing before an enforcement officer; or\n(b) answering any question to which an enforcement officer exercising a relevant power may require an answer.\n(5) It is an offence for a person intentionally to obstruct an enforcement officer in the exercise or performance of the enforcement officer's powers.\n(6) It is an offence for a person falsely to pretend to be an enforcement officer.\n(7) It is an offence for a person to disclose any protected information contrary to regulation 9.\n(8) It is an offence for a person to use protected information contrary to the restriction under regulation 9(4).\n(9) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraph (7) to prove—\n(a) that the person did not know and had no reason to suspect that the information was protected information; or\n(b) that the person took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/408/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:42.765643+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."
}