Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013

Article 3(1)(b)

SCHEDULE 2 Exemptions from Article 8(1)(bb) of the Electricity Order

Class A: Small distributors

Persons who do not at any time distribute more electrical power than 2.5 megawatts for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power.

A.1.  For the purposes of Class A electrical power distributed by a body corporate, which is associated with, connected to or related to any distributor and which does not fall within Class B below, shall be treated as distributed by that distributor.

Class B: On-site distribution

Persons who do not at any time distribute from any distribution system more electrical power than one megawatt for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power provided that each domestic consumer receives the electrical power, disregarding stand-by electrical power, from a generating station embedded in the same distribution system as himself.

B.1.  For the purposes of Class B “stand-by electrical power” means electricity supplied periodically or intermittently to a person to make good any shortfall in the availability of electricity to that person from its own generation for the purposes of its supply of electricity to domestic consumers seeking such supply, where such shortfall arises from the generating station being wholly or partly out of commission for a temporary period.

Class C: Distribution to non-domestic consumers

Persons who do not at any time distribute electrical power for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers or enabling a supply to be so given with that electrical power.

Class D: Offshore distributors

Persons who distribute electricity generated by an offshore generating station by means of a distribution system which is not used to convey electricity generated otherwise than by offshore generating stations and where those persons do not distribute electricity for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic premises.

D.1.  For the purposes of Class D—

“offshore generating station” means a generating station that is situated within an area of offshore waters;

“offshore waters” means waters in or adjacent to Northern Ireland which are between the mean low water mark and the seaward limits of the territorial sea.

In this Schedule—

“consumer” means a person to whom electricity is provided (whether or not he is the same person as the person who provides the electrical power);

“domestic consumer” means a consumer provided with electricity at domestic premises (but excluding such consumer in so far as he is provided with electricity at premises other than domestic premises); and

“domestic premises” means premises at which electricity is provided wholly or mainly for domestic purposes.