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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/193",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order grants exemption from the requirements of section 4(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989 (which prohibits the generation of electricity without a licence) and section 4(1)(c) of that Act (which prohibits the supply of electricity to premises without a licence) to persons of various classes. The classes of persons who are exempt from the requirement to hold a licence to generate electricity are set out in Schedule 2 and the classes of persons who are exempt from the requirement to hold a licence to supply electricity to premises are set out in Schedule 3.\nArticle 4 provides for conditions which are attached to the exemptions set out in Schedules 2 and 3, and article 5, together with certain paragraphs in Schedules 2 and 3, provide for the circumstances in which the exemptions cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/193/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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