The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 2001

Article 3(1)(b)

SCHEDULE 3 E+W+S EXEMPTIONS FROM SECTION 4(1)(bb) OF THE ACT (DISTRIBUTION EXEMPTIONS)

Class A: Small distributors E+W+S

Persons (other than licensed distributors) who do not at any time distribute more electrical power than 2.5 megawatts for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power.

A.1.  For the purposes of Class A electrical power distributed by a body corporate, which is associated with, connected to or related to any distributor and which does not fall within Class B below, shall be treated as distributed by that distributor. E+W+S

Class B: On-site distribution E+W+S

Persons (other than licensed distributors) who do not at any time distribute from any distribution system more electrical power than one megawatt for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power provided that each domestic consumer receives the electrical power, disregarding stand-by electrical power, from a generating station embedded in the same distribution system as himself.

B.1  For the purposes of Class B “stand-by electrical power” means electricity supplied periodically or intermittently to a person to make good any shortfall in the availability of electricity to that person from its own generation for the purposes of its supply of electricity to domestic consumers seeking such supply, where such shortfall arises from the generating station being wholly or partly out of commission for a temporary period. E+W+S

Class C: Distribution to non-domestic consumers E+W+S

Persons (other than licensed distributors) who do not at any time distribute electrical power for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power.

[F1 Class D: Offshore distributors E+W+S

Persons (other than licensed distributors) who distribute electricity generated by an offshore generating station by means of a distribution system which is not used to convey electricity generated otherwise than by offshore generating stations.

D.1.   For the purposes of Class D—

“offshore generating station” means a generating station that is situated within an area of offshore waters; and

“offshore waters” means—

(a)

waters in or adjacent to Great Britain which are between the mean low water mark and the seaward limits of the territorial sea;

(b)

waters within an area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 F2 ; and

(c)

waters within an area designated under section 84(4) of the Energy Act 2004 F3 .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (6.4.2007) by The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/629), arts. 1, 5

F2 1964 c.29.

F3 2004 c.20.