{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/119",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A water authority, which applies or introduces any substance or product in contravention of regulation 25(1) or a notice given under regulation 25(4), or uses any process in contravention of a prohibition imposed under regulation 26(1) or without complying with a condition imposed by virtue of regulation 26(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 authority for an offence under paragraph (1) it shall be a defence for that authority 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/uksi/1990/119/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:29:09.116107+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."
}