Part 1: Licensing of Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Chapter 1: Licensing of Activities Section 2: Prohibition on unlicensed activities
This section prohibits a person from carrying on certain activities without a licence.
	The activities comprise the transportation of CO2 by onshore and offshore pipeline and operating a site for the geological storage of CO2. The scope of the licensable activities is initially concerned with pipeline transportation of CO2 and the operation of an associated geological storage facility as these assets have monopolistic characteristics.
	This section also enables the Secretary of State to specify in regulations other, non-pipeline, means of transportation of CO2 (e.g., shipping, road, rail) to which the licensing regime should apply, should it be considered appropriate in future to extend the scope of the regime. This might be required if competitive forces do not regulate prices in those sectors as anticipated.
	In addition to the licence requirements established in Part 1 of the Act, the licensing requirements for CO2 storage activities under the existing provisions of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008 continue to apply.