{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-savings-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/300",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 2016 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Savings) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-savings-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2004 Act” means the Energy Act 2004;\n“the 2016 Act” means the Scotland Act 2016;\n“approved decommissioning programme” means a decommissioning programme approved in accordance with section 106 of the 2004 Act (approval of decommissioning programmes);\n“existing installation” has the meaning given in regulation 5 (meaning of existing installation);\n“existing statutory consent” means a consent, licence or approval required by or under any enactment and issued in relation to the offshore installation, or part of that installation, before 1st April 2017;\n“financial security” means any security to be provided in relation to the carrying out of a decommissioning programme in accordance with section 106(4) of the 2004 Act; and\n“relevant date” has the meaning given in regulation 6 (determination of relevant date).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 20. Chapter 3 of Part 2 is amended by the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32) sections 69 to 71, 107 and 108 and Schedule 5, paragraphs 16 and 17 and Schedule 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/300/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:49.580413+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."
}