Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force:–
on 1st September 1989, the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the Electricity Act 1989 (which relate to the Director General of Electricity Supply and consumers' committees) and certain interpretation and supplementary provisions; and
on 1st October 1989, provisions in Part II of the Electricity Act 1989 (which relate to transfers to successor companies, payment for the use of tax losses, Electricity Stock and the abolition of the central guarantee fund), and in Part III of the Act (which relate to the provision of financial assistance for the discharge of nuclear liabilities and to the amendment of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme and Scottish Pension Schemes) together with certain interpretation provisions, including the definition of “prescribed” in section 64 which is brought into force on 1st October 1989 since this word is used in Schedules 14 and 15.