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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-amendment-order-2024/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-amendment-order-2024/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/819",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-amendment-order-2024",
  "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 2001 (S.I. 2001/3270) (“the Class Exemptions Order 2001”) to grant exemption from the requirement of section 4(1)(b) of the Electricity Act 1989 (“the Act”) (which prohibits the transmission of electricity without a licence) to persons in respect of transmission over high voltage array systems. Article 2 of the Class Exemptions Order 2001 is amended to insert a description of transmission over high voltage array systems (which are a type of transmission system under the Act) and Article 3 is amended to introduce the class of persons who benefit from the class exemption as set out in a new Schedule 5 of the Class Exemptions Order 2001.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2EG and is published with an Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument on https://www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/819/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:27:48.779076+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."
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