Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013

Article 3(1)(a)

SCHEDULE 1 Exemptions from Article 8(1)(a) of the Electricity Order

Small generators

Persons who do not at any time provide more electrical power than 10 megawatts from any one generating station disregarding power provided to—

(a) a single consumer who occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and who consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 3 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him; or

(b) two or more consumers who form a qualifying group each of whom occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 3 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him.

In this Schedule “consumer” means a person to whom electrical power is provided (whether or not he is the same person as the person who provides the electrical power) and two or more consumers form a qualifying group if, being bodies corporate,—

(a) each of them is connected to each other provided that no body corporate which is not connected to, or a parent undertaking in relation to, all of them is a parent undertaking in relation to any of them; or

(b) each of them is related to each other, was related to each other on 1st April 1992 and was provided with electricity by the person in question or a body corporate associated with that person on that date.

For the purposes of this Schedule premises shall be treated as on the same site as each other if they are—

(a) the same premises;

(b) immediately adjoining each other; or

(c) separated from each other only by a road, railway or watercourse or by other premises occupied by the consumer in question, by the person who generates the electricity or by any other person who together with that consumer forms a qualifying group.