Prospective
(1)The Secretary of State must, before subsection (6) comes into force, determine standard conditions for MPI licences.
(2)Those standard conditions may contain provision—
(a)for a standard condition included in an MPI licence not to have effect until brought into operation in such manner, and in such circumstances, as may be specified in or determined under the standard conditions;
(b)for the effect of a standard condition included in an MPI licence to be suspended in such manner, and in such circumstances, as may be so specified or determined; or
(c)for a standard condition included in such a licence the effect of which is for the time being suspended to be brought back into operation in such manner, and in such circumstances, as may be so specified or determined.
(3)The Secretary of State must publish the standard conditions determined by the Secretary of State under this section.
(4)The publication must be in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
(5)The standard conditions determined by the Secretary of State have effect subject to any modifications made under—
(a)Part 1 of the Electricity Act 1989,
(b)section 37 or 45 of the Energy Act 2013, or
(c)this Act.
(6)In section 8A of Electricity Act 1989 (standard conditions of licences), after subsection (1B) insert—
“(1C)Subject to subsection (2), each condition which by virtue of section 206 of the Energy Act 2023 is a standard condition for the purposes of MPI licences is incorporated, by reference, in each MPI licence granted on or after the day on which subsection (6) of that section comes into force.”
(7)In this section, “MPI licence” means a licence under section 6(1)(ea) of the Electricity Act 1989 (inserted by section 205 of this Act).
Commencement Information
I1S. 206 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 334(1)