{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-1997/schedule-2",
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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": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "EXEMPTIONS FROM SECTION 4(1)(a) OF THE ACT",
  "text": "Persons (other than licensed generators) who do not at any time provide more electrical power from any one generating station than—\n(1) 10 megawatts; or\n(2) 50 megawatts in the case of a generating station with a declared net capacity of less than 100 megawatts,\ndisregarding—\n(a) power supplied to—\n(i) a single consumer who occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and who consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 3 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him; or\n(ii) two or more consumers who form a qualifying group each of whom occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 3 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him; and\n(b) for the purposes of paragraph (2) above power temporarily provided in excess of 50 megawatts due to technical circumstances outside the reasonable control of the person providing that power.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted (temp. until 31.09.2000)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2424",
      "affecting_title": "The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/989/schedule/2",
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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."
}