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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nagoya-protocol-compliance-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/821",
  "legislation_title": "The Nagoya Protocol (Compliance) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nagoya-protocol-compliance-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Third party undertakings",
  "text": "(1) A person on whom a notice of intent is served may offer an undertaking as to action to be taken by that person (including payment of a sum of money) to benefit any third party affected by non-compliance or the offence (“a third party undertaking”).\n(2) The Secretary of State may accept or reject such a third party undertaking.\n(3) The Secretary of State must take into account any third party undertaking that is accepted in its decision whether or not to serve a final notice and, if a notice is served imposing a variable monetary penalty, the amount of the penalty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/821/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:08.390266+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."
}