{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019/regulation-22A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019/regulation-22A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/22A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22A",
  "heading": "Reasonable excuse",
  "text": "(1) Liability to a sanction does not arise under regulation 20B or 21(2) if the person satisfies the Commissioners or (on an appeal made to the appeal tribunal) the tribunal that there is a reasonable excuse for the contravention.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation a reasonable excuse includes that the person did not know, and had no reasonable grounds to suspect, that the tobacco products did not meet the requirements of regulation 6(2) to (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 22A inserted (20.7.2023) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/606), regs. 1, 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/594/regulation/22A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:44:14.938409+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."
}