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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-26A/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1154",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/26A/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offering a third party undertaking",
  "text": "(1) A person on whom a notice of intent is served may offer the Agency an undertaking as to action to be taken by that person (including the payment of a sum of money) to benefit any third party affected by the offence (a “third party undertaking”).\n(2) The Agency may accept or reject such a third party undertaking.\n(3) If the Agency accepts the third party undertaking, it must also take that undertaking into account in making a decision in relation to the imposition of a variable monetary penalty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 26A inserted (E.) (1.12.2023) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1046), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/schedule/26A/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:31.926820+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."
}