{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1996/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3124",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Defence",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence relating to accompanying documentation under regulation 13 or 14 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/1996/3124/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:48.785368+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."
}