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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conflict-minerals-compliance-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2020/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conflict-minerals-compliance-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2020/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1664",
  "legislation_title": "The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conflict-minerals-compliance-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Imposition of a compliance notice",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by notice (a “compliance notice”) impose on any Union importer in relation to any conduct falling within regulation 15(a)-(g), requirements to ensure that the conduct does not continue or recur.\n(2) Before issuing a compliance notice under sub-paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must be satisfied on the balance of probabilities that a Union importer has engaged in conduct falling within regulation 15(a)-(g).\n(3) A compliance notice may specify the period or periods within which the requirements referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must be met.\n(4) The Secretary of State may at any time in writing—\n(a) withdraw a compliance notice; or\n(b) amend the requirements contained in a compliance notice.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. para. 1(2) substituted (8.3.2021) by The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/145), regs. 1(1), 7(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. para. 1(3) substituted (8.3.2021) by The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/145), regs. 1(1), 7(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.1.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1664/schedule/paragraph/1",
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  },
  "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."
}