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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sizewell-c-nuclear-generating-station-order-2022/article-69",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/853",
  "legislation_title": "The Sizewell C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sizewell-c-nuclear-generating-station-order-2022",
  "path": "article/69",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Failure to comply with directions",
  "text": "(1) Any person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a general direction issued under article 65 (power to make general directions to vessels) or a special direction under article 67 (power to make special directions to vessels) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1) it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that they took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/853/article/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:56:59.101250+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."
}