105 Requirement to prepare decommissioning programmes

Chapter 3
Decommissioning of Offshore Installations

Decommissioning programmes

105  Requirement to prepare decommissioning programmes

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     there is a proposal by a person to construct a relevant object in waters regulated under this Chapter, or to extend a relevant object in such waters;

(b)     there is a proposal by a person to operate or to use a relevant object in such waters on the completion of its construction, or of any extension of it in such waters; or

(c)     a person is constructing, extending, operating or using a relevant object in such waters or has begun in such waters to decommission such an object.

[(1A)     In this Chapter “appropriate Minister”—

(a)     in relation to a renewable energy installation, means the Scottish Ministers—

(i)     if the installation is to be or is wholly in an area of Scottish waters or an area of waters in a Scottish part of a Renewable Energy Zone, and is not being or proposed to be extended outside those areas,

(ii)     if sub-paragraph (i) has ceased to apply to the installation because of an extension or proposed extension, and subsection (1B) applies, or

(iii)     to the extent that the installation

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