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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

Decommissioning of ORE infrastructure - Miscellaneous provisions about decommissioning - Miscellaneous provisions

96: Joint and several liability

You could also call this:

"When multiple people are responsible, they are all individually and together accountable for removing infrastructure."

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If there is more than one person responsible for taking down or paying for the removal of infrastructure under this proposed law, subsection 2 applies to them. You will be jointly and severally liable, which means you are responsible together and also individually, to make sure the infrastructure is decommissioned as required. This means that if one person does not do their part, the others can still be held responsible for making sure it gets done.

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This page was last updated on 29 June 2025

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94: Reports about transmission infrastructure, or

"Telling the government about offshore energy equipment"

97: Relationship with other provisions, or

"How this law works with other laws and rules when you're finished using the ocean"

Part 3Decommissioning of ORE infrastructure
Miscellaneous provisions about decommissioning: Miscellaneous provisions

96Joint and several liability

Subsection (2) applies if there is more than 1 person that, under this Part, must carry out, or meet the costs of, the decommissioning of any infrastructure.
Each person to whom this subsection applies is jointly and severally liable to perform that decommissioning obligation under this Part.