95 Safety zones around renewable energy installations

Safety zones for installations

95  Safety zones around renewable energy installations

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     there is a proposal to construct a renewable energy installation in waters subject to regulation under this section, or to extend or to decommission a renewable energy installation situated in such waters;

(b)     there is a proposal to operate a renewable energy installation on completion of its construction in such waters, or of any extension of it in such waters; or

(c)     a renewable energy installation is being constructed, extended, operated or decommissioned in such waters.

[(1A)     In this section and section 96 the “appropriate Minister” means the Scottish Ministers ڳ𲹲Բ—

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

(a) [(i)]     which 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,

(b) [(ii)]     to which paragraph (a) [sub-paragraph (i)] has ceased to apply because of an extension or proposed extension, if subsection (1B) applies, or

(c) [(iii)]     to the extent that it is to be or is in

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