The Environmental Regulation (Enforcement Measures) (Scotland) Order 2015

Relevant offences for enforcement undertakings

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2.—(1) For the purposes of this Schedule and section 27 of the Act (enforcement undertakings), “relevant offence” means an offence specified in Schedule 4, if the table in that Schedule indicates that an enforcement undertaking may be accepted.

(2) In relation to a relevant offence (“the principal offence”), the following offences are also relevant offences for those purposes—

(a)any attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit the principal offence; and

(b)an offence under section 293(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (statutory offences: art and part and aiding or abetting) as it applies in relation to the principal offence.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the table in Schedule 4—

(a)indicates that, in relation to an offence, an enforcement undertaking may be accepted, if the fourth column of the table contains the word “YES” in the row relating to the offence; and

(b)does not so indicate if that column contains the word “NO” in the row relating to the offence.