Petroleum Act 1987
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5 Failure to submit programmes.
(1) If a notice under section 1(1) is not complied with, or if the Secretary of State rejects a programme submitted in compliance with such a notice, the Secretary of State may himself prepare an abandonment programme for the installation or pipe-line concerned. (2) With a view to exercising his powers under subsection (1) of this section, the Secretary of State may by written notice require any of the persons to whom notice was given under section 1(1) to provide him, within such time as may be specified in the notice, with such records and drawings and such other information as may be so specified. (3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence. (4) The Secretary of State may recover from any of the persons to whom a notice was given under section 1(1) any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in preparing an abandonment programme under this section, and any fee that would have been payable on the submission of a programme by those persons. (5) A person liable to pay any sum to the Secretary of State by virtue of subsection (4) shall also pay interest on that sum for the period beginning with the day on which the Secretary of State notified him of the sum payable and ending with the date of payment. (6) The rate of interest payable in accordance with subsection (5) shall be a rate determined by the Secretary of State as comparable with commercial rates. (7) Where the Secretary of State prepares an abandonment programme under this section, he shall inform the persons to whom notice was given under section 1(1) of its terms; and when he has done so, the following provisions of this Part of this Act shall have effect as if the programme had been submitted by those persons and approved by the Secretary of State.
5 Failure to submit programmes.
(1) If a notice under section 1(1) is not complied with, or if the Secretary of State rejects a programme submitted in compliance with such a notice, the Secretary of State may himself prepare an abandonment programme for the installation or pipe-line concerned. (2) With a view to exercising his powers under subsection (1) of this section, the Secretary of State may by written notice require any of the persons to whom notice was given under section 1(1) to provide him, within such time as may be specified in the notice, with such records and drawings and such other information as may be so specified. (3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence. (4) The Secretary of State may recover from any of the persons to whom a notice was given under section 1(1) any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in preparing an abandonment programme under this section, and any fee that would have been payable on the submission of a programme by those persons. (5) A person liable to pay any sum to the Secretary of State by virtue of subsection (4) shall also pay interest on that sum for the period beginning with the day on which the Secretary of State notified him of the sum payable and ending with the date of payment. (6) The rate of interest payable in accordance with subsection (5) shall be a rate determined by the Secretary of State as comparable with commercial rates. (7) Where the Secretary of State prepares an abandonment programme under this section, he shall inform the persons to whom notice was given under section 1(1) of its terms; and when he has done so, the following provisions of this Part of this Act shall have effect as if the programme had been submitted by those persons and approved by the Secretary of State.
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