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Section 9: General duties of licence holders.

Electricity Act 1989 · 1989 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

It shall be the duty of an electricity distributor—

to develop and maintain an efficient, co-ordinated and economical system of electricity distribution;
to facilitate competition in the supply and generation of electricity.

It shall be the duty of the holder of a licence authorising him to participate in the transmission of electricity—

to develop and maintain an efficient, co-ordinated and economical system of electricity transmission; and
..., to facilitate competition in the supply and generation of electricity.

Subsection (2)(a) shall not have effect to require the holder of a transmission licence which is subject to a condition of the kind mentioned in section 7(2A)(a) to carry on an activity which he would be authorised by the licence to carry on apart from the condition.

The conditions of a licence held by a person to which a duty imposed by subsection (1) or (2) applies may include a condition requiring the person, in performing the duty, to have regard to the interests of existing and future consumers in relation to gas conveyed through pipes (within the meaning of the Gas Act 1986).

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