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The Electricity Capacity (Amendment etc.) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity Capacity (Amendment etc.) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(3) The amendments made by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 do not apply in respect of a capacity agreement awarded as a result of a capacity auction held before these Regulations come into force.

(4) In these Regulations—

“capacity agreement” has the meaning given in regulation 30(1) of the Principal Regulations;

“capacity auction” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations; and

“Principal Regulations” means the Electricity Capacity Regulations 2014(1).

Amendments to the Principal Regulations

2.—(1) The Principal Regulations are amended as set out in Schedule 1.

(2) Any reference in that Schedule to a numbered regulation is to the regulation so numbered in the Principal Regulations.

Amendments to the Electricity Capacity (No. 1) Regulations 2019

3.  Omit regulations 26 and 35 (Secretary of State’s discretion: modifications) of the Electricity Capacity (No. 1) Regulations 2019(2).

Modifications to the application of the Principal Regulations

4.—(1) The application of the Principal Regulations is modified as set out in Schedule 2.

(2) Any reference in that Schedule to a numbered regulation is to the regulation so numbered in the Principal Regulations.

Kwasi Kwarteng

Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

3rd July 2020

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