{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-energy-financing-act-2022/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-energy-financing-act-2022/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/15",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-energy-financing-act-2022",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Regulations about revenue collection contracts",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about revenue collection contracts.\n(2) A revenue collection contract is a contract in relation to which all of the following paragraphs apply—\n(a) the contract is between a revenue collection counterparty and a nuclear company in relation to which, immediately before the contract was entered into, a designation under section 2(1) had effect;\n(b) certain payments under the contract are to be funded by electricity suppliers (see further section 19);\n(c) those payments may be made both before and after the start of electricity generation by the nuclear energy generation project in respect of which the nuclear company holds a licence under section 6(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n(d) the contract is entered into by the revenue collection counterparty in pursuance of a direction given to it under section 18.\n(3) For the purposes of this Part—\n“revenue collection counterparty” is to be construed in accordance with section 16;\n“revenue regulations” means regulations under this section.\n(4) The provision made by this Part is without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1).\n(5) Revenue regulations may—\n(a) include incidental, supplementary or consequential provision;\n(b) make transitory or transitional provision or savings;\n(c) make different provision for different purposes;\n(d) make provision subject to exceptions.\n(6) Revenue regulations are to be made by statutory instrument.\n(7) An instrument containing—\n(a) the first revenue regulations that make provision falling within section 23 or 24, or\n(b) revenue regulations that make provision falling within any of sections 16 to 22,\nmay not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament (in each case, whether or not the regulations also make other provision).\n(8) Any other instrument containing revenue regulations is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(9) If, apart from this subsection, a draft of an instrument containing revenue regulations would be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 1.6.2022, see s. 44(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/15/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:16.697663+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."
}