{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/32",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2008",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Prohibition on use of site in absence of approved programme",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a person is required to submit a programme under section 45 by reason of an application made for a nuclear site licence in respect of a site.\n(2) It is an offence for the person to use or permit another person to use the site, by virtue of the licence, at a time when there is no programme submitted in accordance with that requirement and approved under section 46.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 in force at 6.4.2009 by S.I. 2009/45, art. 4(b)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/32/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:30.740276+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."
}