{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996/regulation-44.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2090",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Transitional defence",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence consisting of a contravention of any of the provisions of these Regulations prior to 1sst January 1997, it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that the radioactive material was carried, or, in the case of an alleged contravention of regulation 35, intended to be carried before 1st January 1997, in a package, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon in accordance with the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2090/regulation/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:11.429162+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."
}