Part 2: Carbon dioxide capture, storage etc and hydrogen production, transport and storage Chapter 2: Decommissioning of Carbon Storage Installations Section 96: Change of use relief: installations
Sections 30A and 30B of the Energy Act 2008 make provision for a person to qualify for change of use relief on installations and submarine pipelines converted for CCS demonstration projects (the latter term having the meaning given in section 7 of the Energy Act 2010). This relief removes the ability for the Secretary of State, in some circumstances, to take the following steps under Part 4 of the Petroleum Act 1998:
issue a notice under section 29(1) (requiring the submission of an abandonment programme for an installation), or
to impose a decommissioning obligation under section 34.
	This section makes amendments to section 30A of the Energy Act 2008, broadening the scope of change of use relief: so that it applies to eligible CCS installations more generally; and amending the trigger point to qualify for such relief.