18.—(1) The Secretary of State may make, and from time to time revise, a scheme prescribing charges in relation to offshore installations in respect of the matters to which paragraph (2) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies to—
(a)the performance by the Secretary of State of functions conferred under or by virtue of these Regulations, as regulator in relation to offshore installations; and
(b)the subsistence of an account required to be held in a trading scheme registry by the operator of an offshore installation.
(3) In this regulation, “trading scheme registry” has the meaning given by section 41A(7) of the Environment Act 1995 F1.
(4) The charges prescribed by a scheme under paragraph (1) must be paid to the Secretary of State.
Textual Amendments
F11995 c. 25; section 41A of that Act (“the 1995 Act”) was inserted by S.I. 2005/925; sections 41 and 41A were amended by S.I. 2011/2911, and sections 41, 41A, 42 and 56 and 111 were amended by S.I. 2012/2788. By paragraph 9A(2) of Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999, subsections (2) to (5) of section 41A of the 1995 Act apply in relation to the Secretary of State and a charging scheme made under this regulation as they apply in relation to SEPA and a charging scheme made by SEPA under the 1995 Act. Paragraph 9A of that Schedule was also amended by S.I. 2012/2788.