Electricity Order 1992 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

PART III CONDITIONS FOR EXISTING LICENCES

Existing licences

8.—(1) The Department may, after consultation with the Director—

(a) by notice in writing modify, or

(b) require the Director by notice in writing to modify,

any licence granted before the coming into operation of these Regulations (“an existing licence”) for the purpose of ensuring that any activity authorised by it is carried out in compliance with the relevant requirements and prohibitions laid down in the Directive.

(2) A notice under paragraph (1) may in particular—

(a) revoke or modify such conditions of, or

(b) include such new conditions in,

an existing licence as the Department or the Director, as the case may be, considers requisite or expedient for the purposes of that paragraph.

(3) Article 11A(2) and (3) of the 1992 Order shall apply in relation to the modification or revocation of the conditions of, and the inclusion of any new conditions in, an existing licence under this regulation as it applies to the inclusion of any conditions in any other licence under that Article or Article 11 of the 1992 Order.

(4) Subject to Article 18A of the 1992 Order, modifications made to a licence under this regulation are without prejudice to the power of the Director or the Secretary of State to further modify that licence in accordance with Article 14, 17 or 18 of that Order.

(5) In this regulation expressions which are also used in the 1992 Order shall have the same meaning as in that Order.

Duties of Department and Director

9.—(1) Article 4 of the 1992 Order shall apply in relation to the exercise by the Department of any functions under this Part as it applies to the exercise by the Department of functions assigned or transferred to it under Part II of that Order.

(2) Article 6 of the 1992 Order shall apply in relation to the exercise by the Director of any functions under this Part as it applies to the exercise by the Director of functions assigned or transferred to him under Part II of that Order.