Article 3 Insertion of article 5A (amount of Shetland assistance amount)

After article 5 insert—

“Amount of Shetland assistance amount

5A.

The Shetland assistance amount^f1 required to be paid by authorised transmitters to relevant distributors under the scheme, in respect of the year commencing on 1st April 2021, is £27,000,000 (twenty seven million pounds).”.

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f1: The 2005 Order established the Hydro Benefit Replacement Scheme (“HBRS”), which is a scheme for offsetting the costs of distributing electricity in a specified area of Northern Scotland. Amendments to the HBRS, by way of modifications to the licence conditions of authorised transmitters set out in Schedule 11, require an amount (“the Shetland assistance amount”) to be passed to the electricity distributor in Northern Scotland under the HBRS. The Shetland assistance amount represents the cost of cross-subsidising electricity distribution for the Shetland Islands local authority region of Northern Scotland.