{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3298",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Defence",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence relating to accompanying documentation under Regulations 8 or 9 above to prove—\n(a) that the consignment received was part of a larger consignment which was consigned to another address,\n(b) that the batch had, so far as he was aware, the correct documentation at the time of delivery, and\n(c) that he believed that the documentation would be delivered to the point of final destination of the last part of the batch.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3298/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:07:47.412893+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."
}