{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wholesaling-of-controlled-liquor-regulations-2015/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wholesaling-of-controlled-liquor-regulations-2015/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1516",
  "legislation_title": "The Wholesaling of Controlled Liquor Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wholesaling-of-controlled-liquor-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Reasonable excuse",
  "text": "(1) Liability to a penalty does not arise under regulation 21 if P 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 paragraph (1), where P relies on any other person to do anything, that is not a reasonable excuse unless P took reasonable care to avoid the contravention.\n(3) Where it appears to the Commissioners or (on an appeal made to the appeal tribunal) the tribunal that there is no reasonable excuse for continuation of conduct for which there was at first a reasonable excuse, liability to a penalty under regulation 21 is to be determined as if the conduct began at the time when there ceased to be a reasonable excuse for its continuation.\n(4) In this regulation “appeal tribunal” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Finance Act 1994.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 1.10.2015, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 9, relevantly amended by S.I. 2009/56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1516/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:52.205628+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."
}