Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020
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46 Defence
It is a defence to a charge of committing an offence against a provision of these regulations that requires a landowner in respect of a storage system, an infrastructure owner of a storage system or a system operator of a storage system –
(a) to take an action in relation to the storage system; or
(b) to ensure that an action is or is not taken in relation to the storage system –
if the person charged establishes that he or she reasonably believed that another landowner in respect of the storage system, another infrastructure owner of the storage system, or another system operator of the storage system, respectively, had satisfied the requirement.