Article 2 Provisions coming into force on 26th January 2009

The following provisions of the Act come into force on 26th January 2009—

(a)

in Part 2 (electricity from renewable sources)—

(i)

section 38(2) (section 37: supplemental provision);

(ii)

section 39 (existing savings relating to section 32 of the Electricity Act 1989);

(iii)

section 40 (the Northern Ireland renewables obligation); and

(iv)

sections 41 to 43 (feed-in tariffs for small-scale generation of electricity);

(b)

in Part 3 (decommissioning of energy installations)—

(i)

sections 72 to 74 (oil and gas installations); and

(ii)

section 75 (wells);

(c)

in Part 4 (provisions relating to oil and gas)—

(i)

section 76 (transfers without the consent of the Secretary of State); and

(ii)

section 77 (model clauses of petroleum licences) and Schedule 3 (petroleum licences: amendments to model clauses);

(d)

in Part 5 (miscellaneous)—

(i)

section 83 (duties of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority);

(ii)

section 87 (energy reports);

(iii)

section 94 (power to amend licence conditions: gas);

(iv)

section 97 (power to amend licence conditions: electricity);

(v)

section 98 (connection offer expenses);

(vi)

section 100 (renewable heat incentives); and

(vii)

section 101 (security of sensitive nuclear information);

(e)

in Part 6 (general)—

(i)

section 103 (offences by bodies corporate etc);

(ii)

for all remaining purposes, section 104 (subordinate legislation);

(iii)

for all remaining purposes, section 105 (parliamentary control of subordinate legislation);

(iv)

paragraphs 2, 4, 6, 9 to 14, 15(a) and 15(b), 16 and 21 of Schedule 5 (minor and consequential amendments) and section 107(1) so far as it relates to those paragraphs;

(v)

section 107(2) and (3)(minor and consequential amendments);

(vi)

section 108 and Schedule 6 (repeals) so far as they repeal—

(aa)

section 4AA(5)(ba) of the Gas Act 1986^f1;

(bb)

section 3A(5)(ba) of the Electricity Act 1989^f2;

(cc)

in section 31(1) of the Petroleum Act 1998^f3, “(d) or”;

(dd)

in section 34(3) of the Petroleum Act 1998, “(d) or”;

(ee)

in section 33(1) of the Utilities Act 2000^f4 “or” at the end of paragraph (b);

(ff)

in section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003^f5, subsection (1A)(a), (b) and (c), and subsections (1B) and (1C);

(gg)

section 81(3) of the Energy Act 2004^f6;

(hh)

in section 5 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006^f7, in subsection (2) “and as if” to the end;

(ii)

section 18 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006; and

(jj)

section 22(b) of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 and “and” immediately preceding it; and

(vii)

section 109 (transitional provision etc).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1986 c.44.
f2: 1989 c.29.
f3: 1998 c.17.
f4: 2000 c.27.
f5: 2003 c.30.
f6: 2004 c.20.
f7: 2006 c.19.