43 Altering activities requiring electricity licence

43  Altering activities requiring electricity licence

After section 56 of the 1989 Act there is inserted—

“Alteration of activities requiring licence

56A Power to alter activities requiring licence

(1)     The Secretary of State may by order provide—

(a)     that specified activities are to become licensable activities; or

(b)     that specified activities are to cease to be licensable activities.

(2)     For the purposes of this Part activities are licensable activities if undertaking them without the authority of a licence or exemption constitutes an offence under section 4(1).

(3)     An order under this section may make consequential, transitional, incidental or supplementary provision including—

(a)     amendments (or repeals) in any provision of this Act or any other enactment; and

(b)     provision modifying any standard conditions of licences or (in the case of an order under subsection (1)(a)) provision determining the conditions which are to be standard conditions for the purposes of licences authorising the undertaking of activities which are to become licensable activities.

(4)     An order under this section may only provide for activities to become licensable activities if they are activities connected with the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity.

(5)     An order under this section providing for activities to become

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