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<Text>After section 32A of the 1989 Act there is inserted—</Text>
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<Text>An order under section 32 may provide for the Authority to issue from time to time, in accordance with such criteria (if any) as are specified in the order, a certificate to the operator of a generating station or to an electricity supplier.</Text>
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<Text>A certificate is to certify—</Text>
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<Text>that the generating station or, in the case of a certificate issued to an electricity supplier, a generating station specified in the certificate, has generated from renewable sources the amount of electricity stated in the certificate; and</Text>
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<Text>If an electricity supplier produces a certificate to the Authority, it is to count for the purposes of section 32(3) as sufficient evidence of the facts certified.</Text>
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