{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2892",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Recovery of expenses by the ONR",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to any expenses incurred by the ONR which the ONR may determine to be incurred wholly or partly in connection with the carrying into effect of these Regulations and includes any sums paid by the ONR by way of remuneration, allowances or other payments to inspectors appointed under the HSWA 1974.\n(2) Where a licensee has applied for a consent to carry out a project or has requested an opinion pursuant to regulation 4 or 6 respectively, the ONR, in such cases and to such extent as it may appear to it appropriate to do so—\n(a) shall require the licensee to repay to it so much of any expenses to which this regulation applies as may appear to it to be attributable to dealing with the application or request; and\n(b) may require the licensee to make to it a payment or payments on account of such liability.\n(3) A licensee shall comply with any requirement made of him under this regulation.\n(4) Any liability of a licensee in respect of sums payable by him under this regulation on account of pensions shall, if the ONR so determines, be satisfied by way of contributions calculated at such rate as may be determined by the Treasury, by reference to remuneration.\n(5) Where a licensee has made a payment under sub-paragraph (2)(b) above on account of an anticipated liability, then if the amount of the liability to which he becomes subject is less than the amount paid under that sub-paragraph, the ONR shall be liable to repay the difference to him.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Regulations substituted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), Sch. 3 para. 95 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(1) substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 15(2) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 15(2) substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 15(3) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 19.11.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2892/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:39:08.821548+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."
}