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(3) In this Act—
- (a) a reference to a verified emissions report that is inaccurate includes a reference to a verified emissions report that is based on a monitoring plan that is inaccurate; and
- (b) a reference to a monitoring plan that is inaccurate includes a reference to a monitoring plan that has not been revised under section 13(4) in the prescribed circumstances, as from such date as may be prescribed (not being a date earlier than the date of those prescribed circumstances).
Meaning of “business facility”
3.—(1) A business facility is a single site at which any business activity is carried out.
(2) In this Act, “business activity” means any activity or series of activities (including ancillary activities) —
- (a) that involves the emission of greenhouse gas; and
- (b) that forms a single undertaking or enterprise, having regard to any circumstances prescribed.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), where a business activity is a series of activities that is carried out at more than one parcel of land, the business activity is treated for the purposes of this Act as carried out at a single site if the same person has operational control over the business activity, and—
- (a) the parcels of land are contiguous, adjacent or adjoining, or separated only by any road or pathway (whether or not providing access to the business facility), or drain or waterway; or
- (b) where paragraph (a) does not apply, there is a dependency between the activities carried out on the parcels of land, having regard to any circumstances prescribed.
(4) A series of activities may be treated as forming a single undertaking or enterprise for the purpose of subsection (2)(b) even if—
