{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004/section-109",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004/section-109.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/20",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004",
  "path": "section/109",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "109",
  "heading": "Carrying out of decommissioning programmes",
  "text": "(1) Where a decommissioning programme is approved by the appropriate Minister, it shall be the duty of the person who submitted the programme to secure—\n(a) that it is carried out in every respect; and\n(b) that all the conditions to which the approval is subject are complied with.\n(2) Where a relevant object is subject to a decommissioning programme approved by the appropriate Minister, it is an offence for a person to take any measures for decommissioning that object unless he does so—\n(a) in accordance with the programme; or\n(b) with the agreement of the appropriate Minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 2 Ch. 3 substituted (1.4.2017) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 62(10)(11), 72(4)(e); S.I. 2017/300, reg. 3 (with regs. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 109(1) applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (30.6.2015) by The Swansea Bay Tidal Generating Station Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1386), arts. 1, 42(4)(5)(c) (with arts. 51, 53)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 109 in force at 1.10.2005 by S.I. 2005/877, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/20/section/109",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:05.990250+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."
}