The Energy Act 2004 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2005

Commencement

3.—(1) Except for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (2), section 179 of the Act shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

(2) Section 179 shall come into force on 1st April 2010—

(a)for the purposes of sections 32 to 32C of the Electricity Act 1989, in respect of any electricity which (without being conveyed to the premises wholly or partly by means of a distribution system) is supplied to premises occupied by a high electricity user from a substation to which it has been conveyed by means of a transmission system; and

(b)in respect of any electricity which, being stand-by electricity, is supplied (without being conveyed to the premises wholly or partly by means of a distribution system) to premises occupied by a body corporate from a substation to which it has been conveyed by means of a transmission system.