Part 2: Legislative and executive competence: further provision Chapter 13: Planning for electricity generating stations Section 41: Safety zones around renewable energy installations
This section amends the Energy Act 2004 ("the 2004 Act") to enable the Welsh Ministers to exercise functions in relation to declaring safety zones around, and the decommissioning of, offshore renewable energy developments wholly in waters adjacent to Wales out to the seaward limits of the Welsh Zone
	The section amends section 95 of the 2004 Act (safety zones around renewable energy installations) to provide the Welsh Ministers with a discretionary power to issue a notice to declare safety zones around a renewable energy installation in Welsh waters and to determine which activities are permitted within a safety zone, and which vessels may enter or remain within a safety zone. Where such an installation is proposed to be, or is, extended outside Welsh waters, the Secretary of State will exercise the functions in relation to declaring safety zones in respect of that part of the installation, unless the Welsh Ministers and the Secretary of State agree that the Welsh Ministers should do so.
	Paragraph 47 to 49 of Schedule 6 amends the Electricity Act 1989 to create a power for Welsh Ministers to make regulations governing the application process for consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate a generating station up to 350MW in waters adjacent to Wales.
	Paragraph 50 of Schedule 6 amends Schedule 8 to the Electricity Act 1989 such that it does not apply to applications made to Welsh Ministers.
	Paragraph 51 of Schedule 6 amends Schedule 9 to the Electricity Act 1989, on the preservation of amenity, such that it applies to Welsh Ministers where they are the consenting authority.
	Paragraph 60 of Schedule 6 amends the Energy Act 2004 that where Welsh Ministers make regulations governing applications for safety zones that these will be subject to the negative procedure in the Assembly.
	Paragraph 61 of Schedule 6 amends Schedule 16 to the Energy Act 2004 to provide for Welsh Ministers' role in relation to safety zones under section 95 of that Act.
	Paragraphs 74 to 76 make provision for the deeming of marine licences under section 149A of the Planning Act 2008, to allow for changes to the authority that would otherwise grant those licences and enforce them from the Secretary of State to Welsh Ministers.