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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

Regime for offshore renewable energy permits and infrastructure protection - Provisions relating to both feasibility permits and commercial permits - Miscellaneous provisions

60: Effect of expiry, revocation, or surrender

You could also call this:

"What happens to your responsibilities when a permit ends or is cancelled"

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If a permit expires, is revoked, or surrendered, you are still responsible for anything that happened while the permit was current. This includes things you did under the permit that someone might take legal action about. You are also still responsible for any obligations that this proposed law says you must keep doing even after the permit is no longer current. You can see more information about this in section 70(2), which talks about what happens with decommissioning obligations after a person is no longer a permit holder.

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Part 2Regime for offshore renewable energy permits and infrastructure protection
Provisions relating to both feasibility permits and commercial permits: Miscellaneous provisions

60Effect of expiry, revocation, or surrender

  1. The expiry, revocation, or surrender of a permit does not release the permit holder from any liability incurred in respect of—

  2. the permit while it was current; and
    1. any act under the permit while it was current giving rise to a cause of action; and
      1. obligations that this Act specifies as continuing in force after the permit ceases to be current.

          1. Guidance note

          See section 70(2) under which the decommissioning obligation continues in force after a person ceases to be a permit holder.