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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/989",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order re-enacts the Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (No. 2) Order 1995 with amendments. It grants exemption from the requirements of section 4(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989 (the “Act”) (which prohibits the generation of electricity without a licence) and section 4(1)(c) of the 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.\nIn addition to minor and drafting amendments, this Order makes the following changes of substance:\nthe exemption granted to persons falling within Class A in Schedule 3 is extended to cover electricity supplied to them by the holder of a licence under section 6(2) of the Act (a “second-tier supplier”);\nthe limitations on the exemption granted to persons falling within Class B in Schedule 3 are removed to the extent that those persons are supplying electricity which has been supplied to them by a second-tier supplier;\nthe requirement in Class B in Schedule 3 for Class C electricity not to be resold to premises taking more than 100 kilowatts has been removed; and\nthe exemption granted to persons falling within Class C in Schedule 3 is extended to allow supply to several consumers on-site who are not connected to each other and to consumers off-site who are supplied over private wires, in each case subject to a total maximum amount of electricity of 100 megawatts, of which not more than one megawatt can be supplied to domestic consumers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/989/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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