The Electricity Supply (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1987 No. 1275 — creates 10 criminal offences.
- Made
- 21 July 1987
- In force from
- 22 September 1987
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Energy, communications, water and utilities
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the Electricity Supply (Northern Ireland) Order 1972. The main amendments are— a to rename the Northern Ireland Electricity Service as Northern Ireland Electricity; b to facilitate the generation of electricity by persons other than Northern Ireland Electricity; c to extend the functions and borrowing powers of Northern Ireland Electricity; d to require Northern Ireland Electricity to adopt and support schemes for use of heat produced from the generation of electricity; e to extend the purpose for which the Department of Economic Development may compulsorily acquire land; f to make new provision with respect to powers of entry; g to require notice of construction of private generating stations to be given to Northern Ireland Electricity; h to enable Northern Ireland Electricity to require a person to remedy any electric line made unsafe by his action; and i to increase the time within which prosecutions for certain offences can be brought.
Offences created by this instrument
- Electricity supply article 20 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Electricity supply article 20(d) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Electricity supply article 20(d)(i) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Electricity supply article 20(e) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Electricity supply article 20(f) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Electricity supply article 20(h) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Penalty for resale or supply of electricity to person disconnected article 26A(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Powers of entry article 8 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Exercise of powers of entry article 9D · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Exercise of powers of entry article 9D(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1987