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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2424",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/989). It grants for a period of one year exemption from the requirement to hold a licence to generate electricity to two new classes of persons whose generating stations were connected to the transmission system in England and Wales or a distribution system in England and Wales on 30th September 2000. The new Class C covers persons whose stations are not normally capable of exporting more than 100 megawatts and the new Class D covers persons with stations which were not subject to central despatch on 30th September 2000. The Order does not extend to Scotland.\nA regulatory impact assessment is available and can be obtained from Energy Utilities Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET. Copies have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2424/note",
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  "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."
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