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Paragraph 29 Non-compliance with an enforcement undertakingI1

United Kingdom

(1)

If a person does not comply with an enforcement undertaking, the regulator may, in the case of an offence committed under Part 2 of this Order —

(a)

serve a compliance notice, restoration notice, variable monetary penalty, stop notice or non-compliance penalty; or

(b)

bring criminal proceedings.

(2)

If a person has complied partly but not fully with an undertaking, that partial compliance must be taken into account in the imposition of any criminal or other sanction on the person.

(3)

Criminal proceedings for offences to which an enforcement undertaking relates may be instituted at any time up to 6 months from the date on which the regulator notifies the person that the person has failed to comply with that undertaking.

F1(4)

The provisions in paragraphs 30(2) to (7) and 31 apply to non-compliance penalties served pursuant to this paragraph as they apply to such penalties served pursuant to paragraph 30(1).

(5)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), the references to “compliance notice, restoration notice or third party undertaking” in paragraph 30(2) and (5) are to be read as a reference to “enforcement undertaking”

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 3 para. 29(4)(5) inserted (E.W.) (31.12.2020) by The Animal Welfare and Invasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1590), regs. 1(1)(b)(ii), 9(5)

Commencement

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Sch. 3 para. 29 in force at 1.12.2019, see art. 1(1)