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Schedule 3 — Orders under section 35: transfer schemes
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(g)
such other persons as the Secretary of State considers it appropriate
to consult.
      (5)
Sub-paragraph (4) may be satisfied by consultation before, as well as by
consultation after, the passing of this Act.
Expenditure
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20    (1)
There may be paid out of money provided by Parliament expenditure
incurred by the Secretary of State for the purpose of making payments in
respect of the Secretary of State’s obligations under an investment contract,
whether entered into before or after this Schedule comes into force.
      (2)
There may be paid out of money provided by Parliament expenditure
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incurred by the Secretary of State for the purpose of, or in connection with—
(a)
obtaining advice and assistance in relation to investment contracts
(including in relation to entering into an investment contract);
(b)
the establishment of an investment contract counterparty;
(c)
making payments or providing financial assistance to an investment
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contract counterparty.
      (3)
Financial assistance or payments includes financial assistance or payments
given subject to such conditions as may be determined by, or in accordance
with arrangements made by, the Secretary of State; and such conditions may
in particular in the case of a grant include conditions for repayment in
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specified circumstances.
      (4)
In this paragraph, “financial assistance” means grants, loans, guarantees or
indemnities, or any other kind of financial assistance.
Schedule 3
Section 36

Orders under section 35: transfer schemes
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Power to make transfer schemes
1     (1)
The Secretary of State may exercise the power in sub-paragraph (2) in
connection with the making of an order under section 35 providing for a
person (“the transferee”) to carry out EMR functions in place of another
person (“the transferor”).
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      (2)
The Secretary of State may make one or more schemes for the transfer of
designated property, rights or liabilities of the transferor to the transferee.
      (3)
On the transfer date, the designated property, rights and liabilities are
transferred and vest in accordance with the scheme.
      (4)
The rights and liabilities that may be transferred by a scheme include those
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arising under or in connection with a contract of employment.
      (5)
A certificate by the Secretary of State that anything specified in the certificate
has vested in any person by virtue of a scheme is conclusive evidence for all
purposes of that fact.
      (6)
In this Schedule—
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“designated”, in relation to a scheme, means specified in or determined
in accordance with the scheme;
“EMR functions” has the same meaning as in section 35;
“property” includes interests of any description;
“the transfer date” means a date specified by a scheme as the date on
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which the scheme is to have effect.
Contents of a scheme
2     (1)
A scheme may make provision—
(a)
for anything done by or in relation to the transferor in connection
with any property, rights or liabilities transferred by the scheme to
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be treated as done, or to be continued, by or in relation to the
transferee;
(b)
for references to the transferor in any agreement (whether written or
not), instrument or other document relating to any property, rights
or liabilities transferred by the scheme to be treated as references to
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the transferee;
(c)
about the continuation of legal proceedings;
(d)
for transferring property, rights or liabilities which could not
otherwise be transferred or assigned;
(e)
for transferring property, rights and liabilities irrespective of any
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requirement for consent which would otherwise apply;
(f)
for preventing a right of pre-emption, right of reverter, right of
forfeiture, right to compensation or other similar right from arising
or becoming exercisable as a result of the transfer of property, rights
or liabilities;
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(g)
for dispensing with any formality in relation to the transfer of
property, rights or liabilities by the scheme;
(h)
for transferring property acquired, or rights or liabilities arising,
after the scheme is made but before it takes effect;
(i)
for apportioning property, rights or liabilities;
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(j)
for creating rights, or imposing liabilities, in connection with
property, rights or liabilities transferred by the scheme;
(k)
for requiring the transferee to enter into any agreement of any kind,
or for a purpose, specified in or determined in accordance with the
scheme.
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      (2)
Sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to references in primary legislation or
in subordinate legislation.
Compensation
3
A scheme must contain provision for the payment by the Secretary of State
of such amounts of compensation as the Secretary of State considers
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appropriate to any person whose interests are adversely affected by it.

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Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty
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Schedule 4
Section 42

Application and modification of emissions limit duty
Application of duty: changes to main boilers
1     (1)
Regulations under section 42(6)(b) may provide for the emissions limit duty
to apply (with or without modifications) in relation to fossil fuel plant in
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cases where—
(a)
immediately before the day on which section 42(1) came into force,
the electricity generating station in question was the subject of a
relevant consent, and
(b)
on or after that day—
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(i)
any main boiler of the generating station is replaced, or
(ii)
an additional main boiler is installed for the generating
station.
      (2)
Regulations made by virtue of this paragraph may, in particular, make
different provision in relation to different parts of fossil fuel plant.
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      (3)
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a), plant is to be treated as the subject
of a relevant consent if, by virtue of a consent or approval granted before
section 36 of EA 1989 or Article 39 of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order
1992 (S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1)) came into force, no relevant consent was
required in respect of it.
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Application of duty: generating stations not exporting to a network
2
Regulations under section 42(6)(b) may provide for the emissions limit duty
to apply with modifications (or not to apply) in relation to fossil fuel plant
which does not include a network generating station.
Modifications where gasification or CCS plant associated with two or more generating stations
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3     (1)
Regulations under section 42(6)(b) may provide for the emissions limit duty
to apply with modifications in cases where—
(a)
gasification plant or CCS plant is associated with two or more
electricity generating stations, and
(b)
each of those generating stations is the subject of a relevant consent.
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      (2)
Regulations made by virtue this paragraph may, in particular, provide for—
(a)
the installed generating capacity of any of those generating stations
(or any part of it) to be treated as installed generating capacity of
another of those generating stations;
(b)
any of the emissions from the gasification plant or CCS plant to be
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treated as emissions from any of the generating stations.
Modifications of emissions limit for changes of circumstance during a year
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Regulations under section 42(6)(b) may modify the emissions limit duty in
relation to fossil fuel plant in cases where the generating station—
(a)
is used for the first time, or permanently ceases to be used, for the
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generation of electricity, or
(b)
is altered.

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Schedule 5 — Emissions limit duty: monitoring and enforcement
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Schedule 5
Section 44

Emissions limit duty: monitoring and enforcement
Matters that may be contained in enforcement regulations
1     (1)
Provision that may be contained in enforcement regulations includes
provision—
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(a)
conferring functions for or in connection with monitoring or
enforcing the compliance of operators with the emissions limit duty;
(b)
determining the authorities by whom such functions are to be
exercisable (“enforcing authorities”);
(c)
requiring enforcing authorities to comply with directions given by
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the appropriate national authority in carrying out any of their
functions under the regulations;
(d)
requiring enforcing authorities to comply with requirements
imposed on them under section 43(9);
(e)
requiring or authorising enforcing authorities to carry out
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consultation in connection with the carrying out of any of their
functions under the regulations;
(f)
requiring enforcing authorities to publish guidance about the
carrying out of any of their functions under the regulations;
(g)
about the provision, use and publication of information in relation to
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the compliance of operators with the emissions limit duty;
(h)
authorising the appropriate national authority to make schemes for
the charging by enforcing authorities of fees or other charges in
respect of or in connection with functions conferred on enforcing
authorities under the regulations;
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(i)
about the enforcement of contraventions of the emissions limit duty
through enforcement notices and financial penalties (see paragraphs
2 and 3);
(j)
about the procedure to be followed in connection with the service of
enforcement notices and imposition of financial penalties (including
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requirements for enforcement notices to be published in draft before
being served for the purpose of enabling representations to be made
about them);
(k)
for the enforcement of—
(i)
enforcement notices,
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(ii)
undertakings given in connection with such notices,
(iii)
financial penalties, or
(iv)
other obligations imposed on operators under the
regulations,

by proceedings in the High Court or any court of competent
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jurisdiction in Scotland;
(l)
conferring rights of appeal in respect of decisions made, notices
served, financial penalties imposed or other things done (or omitted
to be done) by enforcing authorities under the regulations (including
provision in relation to the making, consideration and determination
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of such appeals);
(m)
about the application of the regulations to the Crown.
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(a)
conferring power on enforcing authorities to take samples or to make
copies of information;
(b)
conferring power on enforcing authorities to arrange for
preventative or remedial action to be taken at the expense of
operators;
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(c)
authorising enforcing authorities to appoint suitable persons to
exercise the functions mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b);
(d)
conferring powers on persons so appointed (which may include, so
far as relevant, the powers mentioned in section 108(4) of the
Environment Act 1995).
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      (3)
Provision under sub-paragraph (1)(g) may in particular include provision—
(a)
enabling enforcing authorities to use, for the purposes of their
functions conferred under the regulations in respect of fossil fuel
plant, information held for the purposes of their functions in relation
to any such plant conferred under regulations implementing the ETS
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Directive;
(b)
requiring operators, or other persons of a description specified in the
regulations, to provide to an enforcing authority such information,
and in such manner, as—
(i)
the regulations may specify, or
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(ii)
the authority may reasonably require;
(c)
requiring or authorising enforcing authorities to publish such
information, and in such manner, as is specified in the regulations
(whether such information is held as mentioned in paragraph (a) or
is provided as mentioned in paragraph (b));
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(d)
requiring operators to publish such information, and in such
manner, as—
(i)
the regulations may specify, or
(ii)
an enforcing authority may reasonably require.
      (4)
Provision under sub-paragraph (1)(h) in relation to a scheme may—
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(a)
require the scheme to be so framed that the fees and charges payable
under the scheme are sufficient, taking one year with another, to
cover such expenditure (whether or not incurred by the enforcing
authority or other person to whom they are so payable) as is
specified;
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(b)
authorise any such scheme to make different provision for different
cases (and specify particular kinds of such cases).
Enforcement notices
2     (1)
Enforcement regulations may authorise an enforcing authority to serve an
enforcement notice on an operator who has breached the emissions limit
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duty in respect of any fossil fuel plant—
(a)
in relation to the year in which the notice is served, or
(b)
in relation to the preceding year.
      (2)
The regulations may specify the requirements that may be imposed on an
operator under an enforcement notice.
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      (3)
Those requirements may in particular include requirements—
(a)
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(b)
to provide such undertakings in respect of the breach as may be
agreed between the operator and the enforcing authority (whether
for the taking of remedial action or otherwise), or
(c)
to comply with a modified emissions limit duty in relation to the
fossil fuel plant for any year to take account of excess emissions in
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earlier years.
Financial penalties
3     (1)
Enforcement regulations may authorise an enforcing authority to serve a
notice on an operator who has breached the emissions limit duty requiring
the operator to pay such a financial penalty in respect of the breach as is
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specified in, or calculated in accordance with, the notice or the regulations.
      (2)
Enforcement regulations which provide for the imposition of financial
penalties—
(a)
may not permit an enforcing authority to impose a financial penalty
in respect of a breach of the emissions limit duty in any year which
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began more than 5 years before the year in which the notice imposing
the penalty is served;
(b)
may require enforcing authorities, in imposing such penalties, to
have regard to any guidance issued by the appropriate national
authority;
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(c)
may provide for such penalties to be instead of, or in addition to,
requirements imposed under enforcement notices.
General
4     (1)
Enforcement regulations may—
(a)
make provision which corresponds or is similar to any provision
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made, or capable of being made, under section 2(2) of the European
Communities Act 1972 in connection with the ETS Directive (subject
to any modifications that the appropriate national authority
considers appropriate);
(b)
apply or incorporate (with or without modifications) other
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enactments relating to the prevention or control of environmental
pollution (including, in particular, regulations implementing the
ETS Directive and directly applicable EU legislation).
5     (1)
Provision included in enforcement regulations by virtue of section 46(8)(a)
may affect legislation.
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This is subject to sub-paragraph (3).
      (2)
For this purpose, provision affects legislation if it amends, repeals or revokes
any provision made by or under primary legislation.
      (3)
Enforcement regulations made by the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh
Ministers or the Department of Environment may not include any provision
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affecting legislation unless it is within legislative competence.
      (4)
Enforcement regulations made by the Secretary of State—
(a)
may include provision affecting legislation that is made in
consequence of any enforcement regulations made by the Scottish
Ministers, the Welsh Ministers or the Department of Environment,
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Part 1 — Introductory
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(b)
may not include any such provision that could be included in the
regulations mentioned in paragraph (a) except with the consent of
the authority making those regulations.
      (5)
For this purpose, a provision of enforcement regulations is within legislative
competence if—
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(a)
in the case of regulations by the Scottish Ministers, it would be within
the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament if it were
included in an Act of that Parliament;
(b)
in the case of regulations by the Welsh Ministers, it would be within
the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales if it
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were included in an Act of that Assembly;
(c)
in the case of regulations by the Department of Environment, it
would be within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland
Assembly if it were included in an Act of that Assembly.
      (6)
Provision included in enforcement regulations by virtue of section 46(8)(b)
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may include provision modifying provision made by virtue of paragraph
2(3)(c) in cases where there is no applicable emissions limit in respect of any
year.
Interpretation
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In this Schedule “enforcement regulations” means regulations under section
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44.
Schedule 6
Section 58

Nuclear regulations
Part 1
Introductory
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Provision that may be made by nuclear regulations
1
Nuclear regulations may, in particular, make provision of any of the kinds
mentioned in Part 2 of this Schedule for any of the purposes mentioned in
section 58(1).
2
No provision in Part 2 of this Schedule is to be regarded as limiting the
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generality of—
(a)
section 58(1), or
(b)
any other provision in that Part of this Schedule.
Interpretation
3
In Part 2 of this Schedule, “activity” includes process, operation or act.
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