Regulation 13 Compliance with Community legislationI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

In Article 38(1), for the words from “European” to the end there shall be substituted the words “European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/54/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 96/92.”.

(2)

In Article 45—

(a)

in paragraph (1) after “condition or requirement” there shall be inserted “or any provision of the Community Regulation”;

(b)

in paragraphs (4)(b) and (6)(a) for “the relevant condition or requirement” there shall be substituted in each case “the condition, requirement or prohibition”; and

(c)

after paragraph (10) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(11)

In this Article “the Community Regulation” means Regulation 1228/2003 of the European Parliament and Council on conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges of electricity.”.

(3)

At the end of Article 47 there shall be inserted—

“(3)

This Article shall not apply in relation to a penalty imposed for a contravention of any provision of the Community Regulation within the meaning of Article 45(11).”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 13 in operation at 1.8.2005, see reg. 1