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| New Amendments handed in are marked thus |
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| | Question proposed, that the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill. |
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| Clause 42, page 38, line 7, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, |
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| | (e) | relevent local authority.’. |
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| Clause 42, page 38, line 7, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board (NLFAB).’. |
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| Clause 42, page 38, line 14, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | relevant local authority.’. |
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| Clause 42, page 38, line 21, at end add— |
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| | ‘(11) | The Secretary of State must not approve a funded decommissioning programme |
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| | if it includes any proposal to limit the liabilities of the operator, or a body |
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| | corporate associated with the person who submitted the programme, should cost |
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| Clause 45, page 39, line 32, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | relevant local authority.’. |
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| Clause 46, page 40, line 13, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board (NLFAB).’. |
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| Clause 49, page 42, line 7, after ‘may’, insert ‘at any time and at least once every |
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| Clause 49, page 42, line 18, leave out ‘the Secretary of State determines’ and insert |
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| ‘the Secretary of State has reason to believe’. |
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| | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | This amendment alters the threshold that the Secretary of State must meet in order to exercise his |
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| | powers to gather information for the purposes of making a decision as to whether or not to propose |
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| | a modification to a programme. |
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| Clause 50, page 44, line 10, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, |
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| | (e) | the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, |
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| | (f) | the relevant local authorities.’. |
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| Clause 50, page 44, line 10, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board (NLFAB).’. |
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| Clause 51, page 44, line 29, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(3) | Regulations may establish a Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board |
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| | (NLFAB) to provide independent scrutiny and advice on the development, |
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| | approval, implementation, modification and maintenance of funded programmes |
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| | for the designated technical matters mentioned in section 41(5). |
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| | (a) | be appointed by the Secretary of State; |
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| | (b) | report to Parliament annually on the implementation of all funding of |
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| | designated technical matters as specified in approved funded |
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| | (c) | review all programmes on a five year cycle, including coverage of all |
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| | designated technical matters specified in approved funded programmes, |
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| | estimates for costs for all matters under section 41(5) and of security |
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| | provided in connection with those costs; |
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| | (d) | give advice on alternative arrangements where designated technical |
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| | matters are not specified in an approved funded programme.’. |
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| Clause 53, page 45, line 22, after ‘indictment’, insert ‘in a case of dishonesty,’. |
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| Clause 53, page 45, line 23, leave out ‘2’ and insert ‘5’. |
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| Clause 56, page 46, line 38, leave out ‘or misleading’. |
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| Clause 59, page 47, line 30, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board (NLFAB).’. |
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| Clause 63, page 50, line 14, at end insert— |
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| | ‘“disposal” for solid nuclear wastes (including nuclear materials declared as |
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| | waste) means emplacement in a long term storage facility;’. |
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| Clause 63, page 50, line 18, at end insert ‘or Northern Ireland legislation’. |
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| | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | This amendment ensures that for the purposes of interpretation for the nuclear waste and |
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| | decommissioning provisions in the Bill, where references are made to an enactment, Northern |
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| | Ireland legislation is included where appropriate and relevant. |
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| Clause 65, page 52, line 36, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(5) | In subsection (4) “enactment” includes an instrument made under an enactment.’. |
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| | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | This amendment ensures that for the purposes of the provisions about financial security for |
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| | decommissioning of offshore renewables installations in the Bill, references to an enactment |
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| | include secondary legislation. |
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| Clause 69, page 57, line 35, at end insert ‘or Northern Ireland legislation’. |
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| | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | This amendment ensures that for the purposes of the provisions about financial security for |
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| | decommissioning of oil and gas installations, where references are made to an enactment, |
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| | Northern Ireland legislation is included where appropriate and relevant. |
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| Clause 73, page 62, line 26, leave out from ‘all’ to end of line 27 and insert |
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| ‘existing apparatus, works and associated services necessary for the existing and future |
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| operation of such pipe-line or network of a similar nature with a third party.”’. |
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| Clause 73, page 62, leave out lines 31 and 32 and insert— |
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| | ‘(d) | separating, purifying, blending, odorising or compressing upstream gas |
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| Clause 73, page 63, line 6, leave out from ‘all’ to ‘and’ in line 7 and insert ‘existing |
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| apparatus, works and associated services necessary for the existing and future operation |
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| of such pipe-line or network of a similar nature with a third party”,’. |
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| Page 69, line 10, leave out Clause 78. |
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| | Clause 85, page 75, line 8, at end add— |
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| | ‘(3) | This section does not apply to electricity display devices. |
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| | (4) | In this section, “electricity display device” means a device that can be attached to |
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| | a meter board in order to provide information on the amount of electricity being |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State shall make regulations which require smart meters to be |
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| | installed for gas and electricity in all homes by the end of a specified period of ten |
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| | years from the date on which the regulations are made. |
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| | (2) | In this section a “smart meter” means a gas or electricity meter with two-way |
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| | communication capabilities including communication capability to a display |
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| | which illutstrates household usage and cost per unit consumed. |
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| | (3) | Regulations made under this section must be made within a period of 12 months |
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| | beginning on the date on which this Act is passed.’. |
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| | Information on ETS allocations |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | Companies involved in the generation of electricity must publish information in |
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| | their Annual Reports on the amount and value of any allocation they have |
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| | received from the EU ETS and the amount that has been paid for such an |
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| | (2) | Companies failing to publish the information required under subsection (1) shall |
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| | be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding |
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| | level 5 on the standard scale.’. |
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| | Repayment in cases of over-charging |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State shall by regulations make provision about the repayment |
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| | of sums by energy suppliers following over-charging of consumers. |
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| | (2) | Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular— |
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| | (a) | make provision about the circumstances in which energy suppliers are |
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| | required to make repayments and the time limits for such repayments; |
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| | (b) | provide for the Authority to determine charges to be made on energy |
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| | companies which fail to meet requirements relating to repayments.’. |
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| | Information on contributions towards environmental taxes |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State shall make regulations requiring energy utilities |
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| | companies to specify the proportion of those consumers’ energy bills that |
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| | contribute towards environmental taxes. |
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| | (2) | In this section “environmental taxes” means— |
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| | (a) | the Renewables Obligation Certificates, |
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| | (b) | charges resulting from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and |
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| | (c) | charges resulting from the Carbon Emissions Reduction Targets and |
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| | future additional environmental charges.’. |
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| | Annual report on gas storage |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘The Secretary of State shall, in each calendar year following that in which this |
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| | Act is passed, lay before Parliament a report on— |
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| | (a) | his assessment of the appropriate volume of onshore gas storage to ensure |
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| | long-term energy security, and |
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| | (b) | the progress that has been made towards reaching that target.’. |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision to introduce feed-in |
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| | tariffs for renewable micro-generation and decentralised energy. |
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