The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 No. 1154

[F1 SCHEDULE 26A E+W Variable monetary penalties (England)

Textual Amendments

F1 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.

PART 1 E+W Variable monetary penalties: procedure

Offering a third party undertaking E+W

4.— (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”).

(2) The Agency may accept or reject such a third party undertaking.

(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.]