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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

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

97: Relationship with other provisions

You could also call this:

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

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If you have a permit to do something under this proposed law and it ends, you still have to do what you promised to do when you were finished, like cleaning up after yourself. This is called a decommissioning obligation. You can do this even if section 12 says something else. You should look at the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 to see how this works with other laws. You have to follow the rules in that law too, like making a plan to clean up when you apply to do something in the ocean. This plan is like a promise to clean up after yourself when you are finished with something in the ocean.

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96: Joint and several liability, or

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

98: Delegation of functions by Minister, or

"The Minister can pass some of their tasks to the chief executive, with some limits."

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

97Relationship with other provisions

A former permit holder is not prevented from carrying out their decommissioning obligation under this Act by section 12.

Guidance notes

See also section 38C of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012, which requires a commercial permit holder to submit an accepted decommissioning plan under that Act when they make an application for a marine consent under that Act to decommission ORE infrastructure.

See also sections 100E to 100H of that Act, which relate to decommissioning plans required under that Act in respect of ORE infrastructure.