SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5Emissions limit duty: monitoring and enforcement
Enforcement notices
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Enforcement regulations may authorise an enforcing authority to serve an enforcement notice on an operator who has breached the emissions limit duty in respect of any fossil fuel plant—
a
in relation to the year in which the notice is served, or
b
in relation to the preceding year.
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The regulations may specify the requirements that may be imposed on an operator under an enforcement notice.
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Those requirements may in particular include requirements—
a
to take such remedial action in respect of the breach as is specified in the notice,
b
to provide such undertakings in respect of the breach as may be agreed between the operator and the enforcing authority (whether for the taking of remedial action or otherwise), or
c
to comply with a modified emissions limit duty in relation to the fossil fuel plant for any year to take account of excess emissions in earlier years.