The Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources) (Scotland) Order 1999

Article 4(1)

SCHEDULE 2 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

1.—(1) The requirements referred to in article 4(1)(a) are–

(a) that planning permission and all necessary consents (including any necessary wayleave consents), servitudes and rights to enable any relevant non-fossil fuel generating station to be constructed and operated in accordance with and as contemplated by the terms of the relevant arrangements have been granted;

(b) that planning permission and all necessary consents (including any necessary wayleave consents), servitudes and rights to enable any public electricity supplier to whose electricity distribution system any relevant non-fossil fuel generating station is to be connected to comply with his obligations as contemplated by the terms of the relevant arrangements have been granted;

(c) that the operator has entered into, and there has come into force, a connection agreement;

(d) that the operator holds a licence or has the benefit of an exemption under Part I of the Act authorising him to generate electricity and to convey electricity from the place at which it is generated to the point of delivery for the purposes of the relevant arrangements; and

(e) that the commissioning process has been satisfactorily completed.

2.  In this Schedule, “connection agreement” means an agreement providing for the connection of any relevant non-fossil fuel generating station to a system of electric lines and electrical plant through which generating capacity will be made available to a public electricity supplier.