Part 3: Decommissioning of Energy Installations Funded decommissioning programmes Section 47: Prohibition on use of site in absence of approved programme
240.This section creates an offence where a person with a nuclear site licence for a site uses the site, or permits another person to use the site, by virtue of the licence without an approved funded decommissioning programme in place (subsections (1) and (2)).
241.Subsection (3) sets out the penalties for the offences above:
	on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (currently £5,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland); or
	on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.