Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 1576 (C. 90)
Energy
The Infrastructure Act 2015 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2015
Made
21st July 2015
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(7)(c) of the Infrastructure Act 2015( 1 ), makes the following Regulations.
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Infrastructure Act 2015 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2015.
(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Infrastructure Act 2015 .
Provisions coming into force on 30th July 2015
2. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the day appointed for the coming into force of section 50 (onshore hydraulic fracturing: safeguards) of the Act is 30th July 2015.
(2) Section 50 comes into force only for the purposes of the insertion of the following provisions in the Petroleum Act 1998( 2 )—
(a) section 4B(4);
(b) section 4B(5);
(c) section 4B(6);
(d) section 4B(7).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Andrea Leadsom
Minister of State
Department of Energy and Climate Change
21st July 2015