Citation and commencement

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity (Designation of Delivery Bodies) (Transmission) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 11th December 2023.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“ the Act ” means the Electricity Act 1989;

“ national system operator ” means the person who co-ordinates, and directs, the flow of electricity onto and over the transmission system for Great Britain and offshore waters.

Designation of a delivery body in respect of transmission

3. Subject to the designation in regulation 4, the national system operator is designated for the purposes of section 6BB(1) of the Act as delivery body in respect of transmission.

Designation of delivery body in respect of offshore transmission licences

4. The Authority is designated for the purposes of section 6BB(1) of the Act as delivery body in respect of determination on a competitive basis of the person to whom an offshore transmission licence is to be granted.

Condition of designation

5. The designation made under regulation 3 has effect subject to the condition that the national system operator, in the exercise of its functions as a delivery body, must have regard to the principal objective conferred, and the duties imposed, on the Authority by sections 3A to 3C of the Act (to the same extent that those sections apply to the Authority).