Electricity Act 1989

4 (1) Where any application made under section 2 of the [1909 c. 34.] Electric Lighting Act 1909 or section 35 of the Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 is effective on the day appointed for the coming into force of section 36 of this Act—

(a) the application shall have effect as if made under the said section 36 modified for that purpose by the omission of subsections (2) and (3);

(b) anything done before that day in relation to the application (whether under the said section 2 or 35 or under section 33 or 34 of the [1957 c. 48.] Electricity Act 1957) shall have effect as if done under the corresponding provisions of Schedule 8 to this Act; and

(c) the provisions of Part I of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(2) The repeal by this Act of section 2 of the Electric Lighting Act 1909 or section 35 of the Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 shall not affect the validity of any consent granted under that section before the day appointed for the coming into force of the repeal.

(3) Section 36 of this Act shall not apply in relation to—

(a) the construction of a generating station, or its operation as constructed; or

(b) the extension of a generating station, or its operation as extended,

if its construction or, as the case may be, extension is authorised by a consent given or having effect as if given under section 2 of the Electric Lighting Act 1909 or section 35 of the Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979, or by a planning permission granted on an application made before the day appointed for the coming into force of the said section 36.