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The Energy Act 2023 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2025

S.I. 2025/1173 · Made 6 November 2025

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ENERGY

Made 6th November 2025

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 334(1) of the Energy Act 2023f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2023 c. 52.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provision coming into force on 2nd December 2025
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Energy Act 2023 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2025.

2Provision coming into force on 2nd December 2025

Section 304 of the Energy Act 2023 (excluded disposal sites) comes into force on 2nd December 2025, insofar as it is not already in forcef1.

Signature

Vallance

Minister of State

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 

6th November 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force on 2nd December 2025 specified provisions of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) (“the Act”). These are the fourth set of commencement regulations under the Act.

Regulation 2 brings into force the remaining provisions of section 304, amending the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57) to create a route by which certain installations for the disposal of nuclear matter can be excluded from the nuclear third party liability regime established by that Act.