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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-9B/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-9B/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2013/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "schedule/9B/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation - general",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“back-up generator” means a generator operated for the sole purpose of maintaining power supply at a site during an on-site emergency;\n“balancing services” means any services procured by the transmission system operator in order to balance demand and supply, and to ensure the security and quality of electricity supply;\n“capacity auction” means a capacity auction conducted under Chapter F [of the Capacity Market Code] for allocating Awarded Capacity to Capacity Market Units and includes T-1 Auctions, T-2 Auctions, T-3 Auctions and T-4 Auctions;\n“capacity market framework agreement” means the agreement (including an Accession Deed) under which a person becomes bound by this Code;\n“distribution system” has the meaning given in Article 3 of The Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992;\n“emission limit value” means the permissible maximum quantity of a substance contained in the waste gases from a generator which may be discharged into the air during a given period;\n“nitrogen oxides” means nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide;\n“transmission system” has the meaning given in Article 3 of The Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992;\n“transmission system operator” means the person or persons operating the transmission system for Northern Ireland; and\nany reference to emissions expressed in mg/Nm3 is to those emissions defined in accordance with Annex II of the Medium Combustion Plant Directive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9B inserted (20.3.2018) by The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/33), regs. 1, 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/160/schedule/9B/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:30.260718+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."
}