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10(1)This paragraph applies where—
(a)the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person has committed an offence under section 12,
(b)the person offers an undertaking (an “enforcement undertaking”) to take specified action, within a specified period,
(c)the action specified is—
(i)action to secure that the offence does not continue or recur, or
(ii)action of a prescribed description,
and
(d)the Secretary of State accepts the undertaking.
(2)Unless the person has failed to comply with the undertaking or any part of it—
(a)the person may not at any time be convicted of an offence under section 12 in respect of the act or omission to which the undertaking relates;
(b)the Secretary of State may not impose on the person any monetary penalty that he or she would otherwise have power to impose by virtue of paragraph 1 in respect of that act or omission.
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