{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consent for dismantling or decommissioning",
  "text": "(1) A licensee shall not commence a project unless—\n(a) he has applied to the ONR for a consent to carry out the project; and\n(b) a consent to carry out the project has been granted for the purposes of this paragraph by the ONR ....\n(2) The ONR may require the licensee to provide the application in an electronic form.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 renumbered as reg. 4(1) (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 5(2) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(b) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/657), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) inserted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}