Energy Act 2023

Further provision about installation and maintenance licences

33 (1) The regulations may make provision about the contents of installation and maintenance licences.

(2) Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular—

(a) provide for the Regulator to determine and publish conditions to be included in each installation and maintenance licence or in each installation and maintenance licence of a particular description;

(b) provide for the Secretary of State or, in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department to determine and publish conditions to be included in each installation and maintenance licence or in each installation and maintenance licence of a particular description;

(c) provide for consultation on, and publication of, the conditions proposed to be so determined;

(d) make provision about the inclusion in an installation and maintenance licence of conditions that are special to that licence;

(e) make provision about including conditions that meet objectives or other criteria specified in the regulations.

(3) Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, provide for the following sorts of conditions to be included in a licence—

(a) conditions about providing information to the Regulator;

(b) conditions about the payment of fees to the Regulator, including conditions about the payment of fees—

(i) when a licence is first issued;

(ii) while a licence continues to be in force in relation to a person.

(4) The regulations may, in particular, provide for conditions to be included in an installation and maintenance licence that—

(a) in relation to England and Wales, impose on the person who holds the licence a requirement of a kind that may be imposed under section 7(3) of the Electricity Act 1989 on the holder of a licence under section 6(1) of that Act;

(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, impose on the person who holds the licence a requirement of a kind that may be imposed under Article 11(3) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1)) on the holder of a licence under Article 10(1) of that Order.