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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/93",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions from Article 8(1)(c) of the Electricity Order",
  "text": "Persons who do not supply any electricity except—\n(a) electricity which they generate themselves; or\n(b) electricity which they generate themselves together with electricity which is supplied to them by the holder of a licence under Article 10(1)(c) or (2) of the Electricity Order,\nand who do not at any time supply more electrical power than—\n(i) 500 kilowatts disregarding in the case only of electrical power generated solely by CHP generating sets, not being non-fossil fuel generating sets, power provided to any consumer of the type specified in paragraph (b)(i) or (b)(ii) of Class C; or\n(ii) in the case of electrical power generated solely by non-fossil fuel generating sets, one megawatt, disregarding power provided to any consumer of the type specified in paragraph (b)(i) or (b)(ii) of Class C.\nFor the purposes of (i) and (ii) above—\n“CHP generating set” means a generating set used for the simultaneous generation of usable heat and power in a single process at high efficiency;\n“coal products” means any substances produced directly or indirectly from coal;\n“fossil fuel” means coal, coal products, peat, lignite, crude liquid petroleum or petroleum products;\n“high efficiency” means achieving a year round total energy efficiency which would normally be in excess of 70% calculated on the basis of net calorific value;\n“natural gas” has the same meaning as in the Energy Act 1976;\n“non-fossil fuel generating set” means a generating set which is fuelled or driven principally otherwise than by a fossil fuel or by natural gas;\n“petroleum products” has the same meaning as in the Energy Act 1976.\nA.1. (1) For the purposes of Class A electrical power supplied by a body corporate which is associated with the supplier in question and which occupies premises on the same site as the generating station operated by that supplier shall be treated as supplied by that supplier.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), premises and a generating station shall be treated as being on the same site as each other if they are—\n(a) the same premises;\n(b) immediately adjoining each other; or\n(c) separated from each other only by a road, railway or watercourse or by other premises occupied by the supplier or the body corporate in question or by any other person who together with that supplier or body corporate forms a qualifying group.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), two or more persons form a qualifying group if, being bodies corporate—\n(a) each of them is connected to each other provided that no body corporate which is not connected to, or a parent undertaking in relation to, all of them is a parent undertaking in relation to any of them; or\n(b) each of them is related to each other and was related to each other on 1st April 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 76"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/93/schedule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:20.983016+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."
}