Section 32Z: Certificate purchase orders: general provision, Electricity Act 1989

A certificate purchase order may—

make further provision as to the functions of the relevant authority in relation to matters dealt with by the order;

make transitional provision and savings;

provide for anything falling to be calculated or otherwise determined under the order to be calculated or determined by such persons, in accordance with such procedure and by reference to such matters and to the opinion of such persons, as may be specified in the order;

make different provision for different cases or circumstances.

Provision made by virtue of subsection (1)(b) may, in particular, include provision for—

renewables obligation certificates issued in respect of a period before the imposition of the certificate purchase obligation to be treated as if they were GB certificates issued in respect of a subsequent period for which the order is in force;

Northern Ireland RO certificates issued in respect of a period before the imposition of the certificate purchase obligation to be treated as if they were NI certificates issued in respect of a subsequent period for which the order is in force.

Provision made by virtue of subsection (1)(d) may, in particular, make—

different provision in relation to different suppliers;

different provision in relation to generating stations of different descriptions;

different provision in relation to different localities or different parts of the United Kingdom.

In subsection (3) "supplier" means an electricity supplier or a Northern Ireland supplier.

The Authority and the Northern Ireland authority may enter into arrangements for the Authority to act on behalf of the Northern Ireland authority for, or in connection with, the carrying out of any functions conferred on the Northern Ireland authority under, or for the purposes of, a certificate purchase order.

The duties imposed on the Secretary of State—

by section 3A (principal objective and general duties in carrying out functions under this Part), and

by section 132(2) of the Energy Act 2013 (duties in relation to strategy and policy statement),

do not apply in relation to the exercise of a power under section 32N to make a certificate purchase order so far as it is made for or in connection with imposing the certificate purchase obligation on the purchasing body of NI certificates.

Section 32Z: Certificate purchase orders: general provision

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