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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-class-exemptions-from-the-requirement-for-a-licence-order-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
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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/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“the Authority” means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation;\n“charging statement” (in relation to a distribution exemption holder who proposes to impose a use of system charge) is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 5(2)(b);\n“closed distribution system” means a system classified as a closed distribution system by the Authority under paragraph 11(2);\n“customer” means a person who purchases electricity for the person’s own consumption;\n“the Energy Order” means the Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“expression of interest” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(2);\n“household customer” means a customer who purchases electricity for consumption by the customer’s own household;\n“system user”, in relation to a distribution system, means—\n(a) a person supplying electricity that is being conveyed by means of that distribution system; or\n(b) a customer who owns or occupies premises that are connected to that distribution system;\n“third party supplier”, in relation to a distribution exemption holder, means any authorised supplier that is not related to the distribution exemption holder; and\n“use of system charge”, in relation to a distribution exemption holder, means a charge which—\n(a) is levied by the distribution exemption holder on a third party supplier identified in an expression of interest that has been served on the distribution exemption holder; and\n(b) is for use of the exempt distribution system to which the expression of interest relates; and\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person (“A”) is related to another person (“B”) where A is—\n(a) an undertaking in which B has a participating interest within the meaning of section 421A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) a holding company of B;\n(c) a subsidiary of B; or\n(d) a subsidiary of a holding company of B.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) “holding company” and “subsidiary” are to be construed in accordance with section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.80"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c.8 as amended by S.I. 2008/948"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2006 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/93/schedule/4/paragraph/17",
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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."
}