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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348209761",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Surrender of permits",
  "text": "(1) Where a permit authorises a regulated activity to be carried out at an installation that has ceased operation, the operator must apply to the regulator to surrender the permit on or before—\n(a) the last day of the period of 1 month beginning with the day on which it ceased operation; or\n(b) such later date as may be agreed by the regulator.\n(2) Where a permit authorises a regulated activity to be carried out at an installation where a regulated activity is no longer being carried out but it is not technically impossible to resume operation, the operator of the installation may apply to the regulator to surrender the permit.\n(3) Where the regulator grants an application to surrender a permit under sub-paragraph (1) or (2), the regulator must give a notice (a “surrender notice”) to the operator.\n(4) The surrender notice must—\n(a) set out a date (the “end date”) on which the surrender of the permit takes effect;\n(b) require the operator to—\n(i) submit to the regulator on or before a date set out in the notice a report of the installation’s reportable emissions in the period beginning on 1st January in the scheme year (the “end year”) in which the end date falls and ending on the end date;\n(ii) ensure that the report is prepared and verified in accordance with the monitoring and reporting conditions of the permit;\n(iii) where the permit is a greenhouse gas emissions permit, on or before a date set out in the notice, surrender allowances equal to the installation’s reportable emissions in the period referred to in sub-paragraph (i).\n(5) The operator must comply with the requirements of the surrender notice.\n(6) Where a surrender notice is given—\n(a) the permit ceases to be in force on the end date (and therefore ceases to authorise a regulated activity to be carried out at the installation from that date); but\n(b) the conditions of the permit continue to have effect as if the permit were in force until the regulator certifies that the conditions of the permit and the requirements of the surrender notice have been complied with.\n(7) The reference in sub-paragraph (6)(b) to the conditions of the permit that continue to have effect includes a reference to conditions relating to reportable emissions before the end year that the operator is required to comply with on or before a date that may fall after the end date (for example, in the case of a greenhouse gas emissions permit, the condition referred to in paragraph 4(2)(b) and the surrender condition or, in the case of a hospital or small emitter permit, the condition referred to in paragraph 11(2)(b) of Schedule 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348209761/schedule/6/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:49:27.101557+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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