The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

Northern Ireland Order in Council 2003 No. 419 — creates 5 criminal offences.

Made

27 February 2003

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Energy, communications, water and utilities

Made under

2000 (c. 1), Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000

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 provide for the establishment and functions of the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation and an energy group of the General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland. It also amends the legislation regulating the electricity and gas industries.

Offences created by this instrument

• Power to alter activities requiring electricity licence article 39(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Power to alter activities requiring gas licence article 40(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Power to require information article 51(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Power to require information article 51(5) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• General restrictions on disclosure of information article 63(9) · 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 2003