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Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 759
The Electricity (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976) (Exemptions) Order 1990
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1990 No. 759
ELECTRICITY
The Electricity (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976) (Exemptions) Order 1990
| Laid before Parliament | 28th March 1990 |
| Coming into force | 31st March 1990 |
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 100(2)(b) of the Electricity Act 1989[1] and after consultation with the Director General of Electricity Supply and the Director General of Fair Trading[2], hereby makes the following Order:- Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Electricity (Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976) (Exemptions) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 31st March 1990.
(2) In this Order-
"the 1976 Act" means the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976[3];
"the 1977 Act" means the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1977[4];
"the 1989 Act" means the Electricity Act 1989;
"agreement" has the same meaning as in the 1976 Act;
"distribution code" means a code of practice for the development, maintenance and operation of a system for the distribution of electricity with whose terms a licence holder is required, by his licence, to comply in whole or in part;
"exempted person" means a person who is, or a member of a class of persons who are, exempt, by virtue of an order made under section 5 of the 1989 Act, from the requirement to hold a licence under that Act;
"grid code" means a code of practice for the development, maintenance and operation of a system for the transmission of electricity with whose terms a licence holder is required, by his licence, to comply in whole or in part;
"grid systems code" means a code of practice relating to the furtherance or maintenance of or the connection of or relationship between the electricity transmission systems belonging to persons each of whom holds a licence under section 6(1)(b) of the 1989 Act;
"information provision" has the same meaning as in the 1976 Act;
"licence holder" has the same meaning as in Part I of the 1989 Act;
"restriction" has the same meaning as in the 1976 Act.
Exemptions from the 1976 Act
2. Agreements relating to the generation, transmission or supply of electricity to which, by virtue of section 100(2)(b) of the 1989 Act, the 1976 Act does not apply and is deemed never to have applied are agreements which- (a) meet any of the descriptions of agreements specified in the Schedule to this Order; and (b) satisfy the condition specified in that Schedule in connection with the relevant description.
John Redwood
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry
27th March 1990
Notes:[1] 1989 c. 29.
[2] See section 100(3) of the Electricity Act 1989.
[3] 1976 c. 34.
[4] 1977 c. 19.
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