# The Port Talbot Steelworks Generating Station Order 2015, Paragraph 5: Decommissioning of existing generating station

Extent: E+W+S

(1) The undertaker must give written notice (the “completion notice”) to the relevant planning authority within 7 days of the date on which the commissioning of the authorised development is completed.
(2) If the authorised development is constructed in 2 stages, the duty in sub-paragraph (1) applies to the completion of commissioning of the second stage of the authorised development.
(3) The undertaker must cease to operate the existing generating station for the purposes of generating electricity as soon as reasonably practicable following service of the completion notice, having regard to the operational requirements of the steelworks, and in any event within 2 years of the date of the completion notice.
(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not require the undertaker to demolish any part of the existing generating station.
(5) In this Requirement, “existing generating station” means—
(a) Margam A boiler 5;
(b) Margam B Mitchell boiler;
(c) service boiler 4;
(d) service boiler 5;
(e) turbo alternator TA1;
(f) turbo alternator TA2; and
(g) turbo alternator TA3.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1984/schedule/2/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/port-talbot-steelworks-generating-station-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-5
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