{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1145",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Meat (Water Content) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Defence of due diligence",
  "text": "(1) In any proceedings for an offence under these regulations it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.\n(2) If in any case the defence provided by paragraph (1) of this regulation involves the allegation that the commission of the offence was due to the act or default of another person or due to reliance on information supplied by another person, the defendant shall not, without leave of the court, be entitled to rely on that defence unless he has served on the prosecutor at least 7 clear days before the hearing a notice in writing giving such information identifying or assisting in the identification of that other person as was then in his possession.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1145/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:34:50.805812+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."
}