Exemptions
3.—(1) These Regulations shall not apply to a person who—
(a)holds a licence under Article 10(1)(a) of the Electricity (NI) Order 1992(1) (licences to supply electricity etc); and
(b)is acting in accordance with an authorisation obtained from the Department under paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to that Order (abstraction, diversion and use of water for hydro-electric generating stations).
(2) Regulation 4 shall not apply—
(a)to the doing of anything for—
(i)extinguishing fires;
(ii)protecting life and property in the event of fire; or
(iii)for the purpose of testing apparatus used for either of those purposes or for training or practice in the use of such apparatus; and
(b)to any abstraction by machinery or apparatus installed on a vessel, where the water is abstracted for use on that, or any other, vessel.