9After section 9B insert—
(1)The Secretary of State must act in accordance with the current strategy or strategies when exercising the functions mentioned in subsection (2).
(2)Those functions are functions under Part 4 to the extent that they concern reduction of the costs of abandonment of offshore installations and submarine pipelines (including the reduction of such costs by means of the timing of measures proposed in abandonment programmes and by the inclusion in such programmes of provision for collaboration with other persons).”