{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-2A/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-2A/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/29",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where an application for a property scheme has been made, the applicant and the non-applicant party may, by a notice served by them jointly on the Authority—\n(a) restrict the property, rights and liabilities in relation to which provision of a kind mentioned in paragraph 1(2) is proposed, or\n(b) withdraw the application.\n(2) Where a notice is served under sub-paragraph (1) the Authority must serve a copy of the notice on any person served with a notice in relation to the application under paragraph 7(1) or 9(8).\n(3) A notice may be served under sub-paragraph (1) at any time before a property scheme is made in response to the application.\n(4) If, at any time, a notice specifying the preferred bidder, in relation to a tender exercise, is withdrawn under paragraph 35, any application for a property scheme previously made, in relation to that exercise, by the preferred bidder or by the asset owner (unless previously withdrawn under sub-paragraph (1)) is treated as withdrawn at that time.\n(5) Where an application is withdrawn by virtue of sub-paragraph (4), the Authority must serve notice to that effect on—\n(a) the asset owner, and\n(b) any person served with a notice in relation to the application under paragraph 7(1) or 9(8).\n(6) If a notice is served under sub-paragraph (1) or an application is withdrawn by virtue of sub-paragraph (4), the Authority may direct the applicant or the non-applicant party (or both) to make a payment to a person within sub-paragraph (7) in respect of the costs incurred by such a person in connection with the application.\n(7) Those persons are—\n(a) the Authority;\n(b) any third party affected by a provision of the proposed property scheme.\n(8) A determination under sub-paragraph (6) must be made on the basis of what is just in all the circumstances of the case.\n(9) The Authority must serve notice of a direction given under sub-paragraph (6) on—\n(a) the applicant (if not the recipient of the direction),\n(b) the non-applicant party (if not the recipient of the direction), and\n(c) any person served with a notice in relation to the application under paragraph 7(1) or 9(8).\n(10) Any sums received by the Authority under sub-paragraph (6) are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (20.5.2009) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 44(4), 110(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 2009/1270, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/29/schedule/2A/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:38.123919+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}