Electricity Act 1989

[F1 Supplementing the application U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (20.5.2009) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 44(4), 110(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 2009/1270, art. 2

9 (1) The non-applicant party may, by notice served on the Authority during the period mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(a), modify the application so as to specify additional property, rights or liabilities of the asset owner in relation to which provision of a kind mentioned in paragraph 1(2) is proposed to be included in the scheme. U.K.

(2) Where an application is modified by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) (a “modification notice”), this Schedule has effect from that time as if any additional property, rights or liabilities specified in the notice had been specified in the application in accordance with paragraph 3(2)(a).

(3) A modification notice must specify the name and address of each person—

(a) whom the non-applicant party considers to be a third party who would be affected by a provision of the proposed property scheme as modified by the notice, and

(b) who is not within paragraph 7(2).

(4) On receipt of a modification notice, the Authority must serve on the applicant a notice (a “warning notice”) which invites the applicant to make representations to the Authority about the modification notice within the period specified in the warning notice (being a period of not less than 21 days) beginning with the day on which the warning notice is served.

(5) A warning notice must be accompanied by—

(a) a copy of the modification notice,

(b) a notice under paragraph 16 which complies with the requirements of sub-paragraph (6), and

(c) a copy of any information provided by the non-applicant to the Authority in response to a notice within paragraph 6(2)(b).

(6) The notice under paragraph 16 must require the applicant to provide the Authority, within the period specified in the notice (being not less than 7 days) beginning with the day on which the notice is served, with—

(a) the name and address of each person to whom sub-paragraph (7) applies, or

(b) if the applicant does not consider that there is any person to whom that sub-paragraph applies, a statement to that effect.

(7) This sub-paragraph applies to a person—

(a) whom the applicant considers is a third party who would be affected by a provision of the proposed property scheme as modified by the modification notice, and

(b) whose name and address were not—

(i) specified in the application in accordance with paragraph 3(2)(c),

(ii) provided to the Authority in response to a notice within paragraph 6(2)(b), or

(iii) specified in the modification notice under sub-paragraph (3).

(8) As soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the information required by a notice within sub-paragraph (5)(b), the Authority must serve on each person within sub-paragraph (9) a notice inviting that person to make representations to the Authority about the modification notice within the period specified in the notice (being a period of not less than 21 days) beginning with the day on which the notice is served.

(9) A person is within this sub-paragraph if the person's name and address were—

(a) specified in the application in accordance with paragraph 3(2)(c),

(b) provided to the Authority in response to a notice within paragraph 6(2)(b) or sub-paragraph (5)(b) of this paragraph, or

(c) specified in the modification notice.

(10) A notice under sub-paragraph (8) must be accompanied by—

(a) a copy of the modification notice, and

(b) if a copy of the application has not previously been served on the person under paragraph 7(1), a copy of the application.

10 U.K. As soon as reasonably practicable after the Authority receives a modification notice, the Authority must publish a notice which—

(a) states that a modification notice has been served on the Authority in relation to an application,

(b) states the names of the applicant and the non-applicant party in relation to the application, and

(c) contains a general description of the modifications made to the application by the modification notice.]