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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-realistic-imitation-firearms-regulations-2007/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2606",
  "legislation_title": "The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Realistic Imitation Firearms) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-realistic-imitation-firearms-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Defences to an offence under section 36 of the 2006 Act or under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to that Act",
  "text": "For the purposes of regulation 3 a person shall be taken to have shown a matter specified in that regulation if—\n(a) sufficient evidence of that matter is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and\n(b) the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2606/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:44:07.413504+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."
}