Commentary on Sections Part 2: Sustainability and Renewable Energy Sources Chapter 3: Decommissioning of Offshore Installations Sections 106 and 107: Approval of decommissioning programmes and failure to submit or rejection of decommissioning programmes
267.These sections set out a process for the approval of decommissioning programmes by the Secretary of State and provide for situations where either the person responsible for submitting the programme fails to do so or the programme which is submitted is considered by the Secretary of State to be inadequate and is rejected. In these latter two cases the Secretary of State has the power to prepare himself a suitable decommissioning programme and recover costs from the responsible person.