{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-inspectors-etc-regulations-1977/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-inspectors-etc-regulations-1977/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/835",
  "legislation_title": "The Submarine Pipe-lines (Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/submarine-pipe-lines-inspectors-etc-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he contravenes or fails to comply with a requirement imposed by an inspector under Regulation 3(1) above or an obligation imposed on him by Regulations 4 to 6 above; or\n(b) he wilfully obstructs any person exercising a power conferred, or performing a duty imposed, by these Regulations; or\n(c) in furnishing any information for the purposes of these Regulations, he makes or causes to be made on his behalf a statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true.\n(2) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commissions of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3163",
      "affecting_title": "The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/455",
      "affecting_title": "Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/1513",
      "affecting_title": "The Submarine Pipe-lines Safety Regulations 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/835/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:59:32.299498+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."
}