Energy Act 1976

17 Orders and directions

(1) Orders under this Act shall be made by statutory instrument and (except in the case of Orders in Council under section 3 and orders under section 10 or 23(2)) be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(2) Powers conferred by this Act to make an order (including an Order in Council under section 4(3) or 23(4)) or give a direction include power to revoke or vary the order or direction.

(3) Powers conferred by this Act to make an order (including an Order in Council under section 4(3) or 23(4)) include power to make any incidental, supplementary or transitional provision which appears to the Secretary of State (or, as the case may be, to Her Majesty in Council) to be appropriate.

(4) An order under this Act (including an Order in Council under section 4(3)) may—

(a) apply to persons, premises or undertakings generally, or to classes of persons, premises or undertakings, or to particular persons, premises or undertakings, and may so apply either in all areas or in specified areas;

(b) provide for exempting persons, premises or undertakings (or any class of persons, premises or undertakings) from the requirements of the order either unconditionally or subject to conditions and with or without a limit in time, and for any such exemption to be varied or revoked.

(5) Where this Act confers power to give directions for any purpose, there is also power to make provision for that purpose by order applicable to all, or to any class of, persons to whom directions could be given.

(6) When an Order in Council under section 3 of this Act ceases to be in force by virtue of any provision of that section—

(a) section 38(2) of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (effect of repeals) applies as if the provisions of this Act which then cease to have effect or become limited in their effect had been repealed, or repealed pro tanto, by another Act; and

(b) the cesser does not prejudice the making of a new Order in Council under the section.