# The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019, Paragraph 9: Third party undertakings


(1) A person on whom a notice of intent relating to a compliance notice, a restoration notice or a variable monetary penalty is served may offer 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”).
(2) The appropriate authority may accept or reject a third party undertaking.
(3) The appropriate authority must take into account any third party undertaking that it accepts in its decision as to whether or not to serve a final notice, and, if it serves a notice imposing a variable monetary penalty, the amount of the penalty.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/schedule/4A/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-4A/paragraph-9
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