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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-recovery-funds-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1230",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Recovery Funds Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-recovery-funds-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under section 292 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) which enables the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for the establishment, operation and management of one or more marine recovery funds (“MRF”). An MRF is a fund into which payments may be made in respect of activities in connection with offshore wind electricity generation and out of which payments may be made towards expenditure on measures to compensate for adverse environmental effects of such activities (“measures”).\nPart 2 of these Regulations enables the Secretary of State to establish one or more MRFs, either for the whole of the UK or for particular territories or combinations of territories of the UK (regulation 3). It also provides for the Secretary of State to operate and manage an MRF but enables the Secretary of State to delegate such functions (regulation 4). Measures have to be approved by the Secretary of State before a payment can be made out of an MRF in respect of them (Part 3, regulation 6).\nPart 4 enables the Secretary of State to determine the procedure by which a person can make an MRF application and sets out some of the matters which such a procedure may include (regulation 7). Regulation 8 deals with decisions to approve such applications and the consequences of such decisions. Where an MRF application is successful, the terms on which the MRF payment is to be made will be reflected in an MRF contract (regulation 9). Regulation 10 enables the Secretary of State to determine the fees payable in relation to the operation and management of an MRF and regulation 11 requires information about these, as well as about the application procedure, to be published.\nPart 5 (regulation 12) specifies who may make payments into an MRF. Part 6 provides that the Secretary of State becomes responsible for the delivery of a measure following the making of an MRF payment or its first instalment (regulation 13). Part 6 also provides for payments to be made out of an MRF in relation to measures (regulation 14). Regulation 15 deals with the monitoring, adapting and decommissioning of measures. Part 7 addresses changes to an MRF or its closure.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF, and is published with an Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1230/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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