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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-regulation-enforcement-measures-scotland-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2015/9780111029466",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Regulation (Enforcement Measures) (Scotland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-regulation-enforcement-measures-scotland-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Relevant offences for variable monetary penalties",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Schedule and section 23 of the Act (variable monetary penalties), “relevant offence” means an offence specified in Schedule 4, if the table in that Schedule indicates that a variable monetary penalty may be imposed.\n(2) In relation to a relevant offence (“the principal offence”), the following offences are also relevant offences for those purposes—\n(a) any attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit the principal offence; and\n(b) an offence under section 293(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (statutory offences: art and part and aiding or abetting) as it applies in relation to the principal offence.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the table in Schedule 4—\n(a) indicates that, in relation to an offence, a variable monetary penalty may be imposed if the third column of the table contains the word “YES” in the row relating to the offence; and\n(b) does not so indicate if that column contains the word “NO” in the row relating to the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111029466/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:53.404445+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."
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