62 Offshore renewable energy installations

62  Offshore renewable energy installations

(1)     The Energy Act 2004 is amended as follows.

(2)     Section 95 (safety zones around renewable energy installations) is amended as follows.

(3)     For subsection (1A) substitute—

“(1A)     In this section and section 96 the “appropriate Minister” means the Scottish Ministers, in relation to a renewable energy installation—

(a)     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)     to which paragraph (a) has ceased to apply because of an extension or proposed extension, if subsection (1B) applies, or

(c)     to the extent that it is to be or is in an area of Scottish waters or an area of waters in a Scottish part of a Renewable Energy Zone, if paragraph (a) has ceased to apply because of an extension or proposed extension, and subsection (1B) does not apply,

and otherwise means the Secretary of State (subject to section 13 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, which transfers certain functions of the Secretary of State to the Marine Management Organisation).

(1B)     This

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