# The Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage (Licensed Operators) Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2025, Rule 84: Fixing of remuneration


(1) The T&S administrator is entitled to receive remuneration for services as T&S administrator.
(2) The remuneration must be fixed by reference to the time properly given by the T&S administrator and the T&S administrator’s staff in attending to matters arising in the T&S administration.
(3) The T&S administrator must make an application to court for the remuneration to be fixed by the court.
(4) The T&S administrator must deliver at least 14 days’ notice of the T&S administrator’s application to the following, who may appear or be represented—
(a) the Secretary of State;
(b) the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;
(c) the creditors of the T&S company.
(5) In fixing the remuneration, the court must have regard to the following matters—
(a) the complexity (or otherwise) of the case;
(b) any respects in which, in connection with the T&S company’s affairs, there falls on the T&S administrator any responsibility of an exceptional kind or degree;
(c) the effectiveness with which the T&S administrator appears to be carrying out, or to have carried out, the T&S administrator’s duties as such;
(d) the value and nature of the property with which the T&S administrator has to deal.
(6) Where there are joint T&S administrators, it is for them to agree between themselves how the remuneration payable should be apportioned.
(7) Any dispute arising between joint T&S administrators in connection with paragraph (6) may be referred to the court for settlement by order.
(8) If the T&S administrator is a solicitor and employs the T&S administrator’s own firm, or any partner in it, to act on behalf of the T&S company, profit costs must not be paid unless this is authorised by the court.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1135/rule/84 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-dioxide-transport-and-storage-licensed-operators-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2025/rule-84
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