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Section 63 Defence available to persons charged with offences.

It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence arising out of—

(a)

a contravention of a provision either of this Act or of regulations thereunder; or

(b)

a failure to comply with any condition subject to which an exemption from any requirement of such a provision has been granted;

to prove that he used all due diligence to secure compliance with that provision or, as the case may be, that condition.