Electricity (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1992 No. 63 (C. 1)

ELECTRICITY

Electricity (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992

Made

21st February 1992

The Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) and (3) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electricity (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992.

Commencement

2.—(1) The provisions of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 specified in the first column of the Schedule, which relate of the matters specified in the second column of that Schedule, shall come into operation on 21st February 1992.

(2) Article 5 of the Electricity (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1992(3) shall come into operation on 21st February 1992.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

R. Gamble

Assistant Secretary

21st February 1992.

Article 2(1)

SCHEDULE Provisions of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 coming into operation on 21st February 1992

Provisions of the Order	Subject matter of provisions
Article 1	Title and commencement.
Article 2	Interpretation.
Article 3	Interpretation of Part II.
Article 4 insofar as it confers or affects any power to make an order	Order to specify area for uniform tariffs.
Article 5 and Schedule 1	The Director General of Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland.
Article 7 and Schedule 2	The Consumer Committee for Electricity.
Article 9	Exemptions from Article 8.
Article 10 insofar as it confers or affects any power to make regulations	Regulations governing applications for licences. etc.
Article 22 insofar as it confers or affects any power to make regulations	Regulations enabling the recovery of expenditure, etc.
Article 32	Regulations relating to supply and safety.
Article 34 and Schedule 7 insofar as they confer or affect any power under paragraph 8(3) of that Schedule to make regulations	Regulations for determining the fees to be paid for examining and testing meters.
Article 39 and Schedule 8 insofar as they confer or affect any power to make regulations	Regulations as to applications for consent under Articles 39 and 40.
Article 40 insofar as it confers or affects any power to make regulations	Regulations as to exemption from overhead lines consent requirements.
Article 52 insofar as it confers or affects any power to make an order	Order as to inspection and copying of register.
Article 64	Powers to make regulations.
Article 68	Interpretation of Part III.
Article 69	Transfer of assets, etc., of Northern Ireland Electricity.
Article 70	Transfer schemes under Article 69.
Article 71	Functions of the Department in relation to transfer schemes.
Article 72 and Schedule 10	Supplementary provisions as to transfers under Article 69.
Article 89 and Schedule 11	Amendment of pension scheme, etc.
Article 92	Repayment of fees.
Article 93	Regulations and Orders.
Article 94	Directions.
Article 95(1) insofar as it relates to paragraph 17 of Schedule 12	Consequential Amendments.
Paragraph 17 of Schedule 12	Amendment of Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(4) in relation to the rating of electricity licence holders.
Article 95(2)	Modification of instruments.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation the provisions of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1952 in relation to the appointment of the Director General of Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland and the Consumer Committee for Electricity, and to certain powers to make regulations and orders. The Order also brings into operation Article 5 of the Electricity (Northern h-eland Consequential Amendments) Order 1992 which amends section 100 of the Electricity Act 1989 (competition and restrictive trade practices).

(1)

S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1) Provision is made by Article 1(2) and (3) of that Order for the coming into operation of the provisions of S.I. 1992/232

(2)

1974 c. 28

(3)

S.I. 1992/232

(4)

S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)