Part 4Final provisions

33Licence modifications etc

1

This section applies in relation to a power to make modifications conferred by—

a

section 12(1) (schemes for reducing fuel poverty);

b

section 18(1) (exploitation of electricity trading and transmission arrangements);

c

section 25(1) (notice of unilateral changes to domestic supply contracts).

2

Subsection (5) also applies in relation to the power conferred by section 23(7) (expiry of power conferred by section 18(1)).

3

The power—

a

may be exercised generally, only in relation to specified cases or subject to exceptions (including provision for a case to be excepted only so long as specified conditions are satisfied);

b

may be exercised differently in different cases;

c

includes a power to make incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional modifications.

4

Provision included in licences by virtue of the power may make different provision for different cases.

5

The Secretary of State must publish details of any modifications as soon as reasonably practicable after they are made.

6

A modification of part of a standard condition of a particular licence does not prevent any other part of the condition from continuing to be regarded as a standard condition for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1986 Act or Part 1 of the 1989 Act.

7

Where the Secretary of State makes a modification of the standard conditions of a licence of any type, the Authority must—

a

make the same modification of those standard conditions for the purposes of their incorporation in licences of that type granted after that time, and

b

publish the modification.