{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-35",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A water undertaker which applies or introduces, any substance or product in contravention of regulation 33(1) or a notice given under regulation 33(8), or uses any process in contravention of a prohibition imposed under regulation 34(1) or without complying with a condition imposed by virtue of regulation 34(2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(2) In any proceedings against a water undertaker for an offence under paragraph (1), it shall be a defence for that water undertaker to show that it took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/212/regulation/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:01.047970+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."
}