UK Statutory Instrument 2015 United Kingdom

The Emissions Performance Standard Regulations 2015

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At a glance

Enforced by

What's here

9 compliance obligations

Penalty landscape

2 of 9 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 1 carries different penalties and 6 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

Operator 5
Any Person 3

Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

For each actor bound by this Act, the other UK Acts that bind them most often. Useful for understanding the full compliance landscape facing each role.

Operators also bound by 730 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Any Person also bound by 2338 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 169 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 101 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 95 duties

What this Act requires

Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

Browse 2 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

s.001

Citation, commencement, extent and application

s.002

Interpretation

Part 2 — Emissions limit duty

Browse 6 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

s.003

Application of emissions limit duty to additional cases

s.004

Modification of emissions limit

s.005

Associated gasification plant

s.006

Exemption for complete carbon capture and storage system

s.007

EPS annual emissions

s.008

EPS annual emissions: reduction for CHPQA

Part 3 — Monitoring and Enforcement in England

Browse 13 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

s.009

Emissions limit notification duty

s.010

CCS notification

s.011

EPS annual emissions notification

s.012

Charges

s.013

Information notices

s.014

Enforcement notices

s.015

Civil penalty notices

s.016

Directions under section 59(2) of the Act

s.017

Appeals

s.018

Publication of information

s.019

Enforcement by the High Court

s.020

Amendment of the GGETS Regulations

s.021

Documents

Other sections — not classified into a Part

These sections sit outside the numbered Parts — usually provisions added or moved by later amendments.