Part 1: Nuclear Energy Generation Projects: Regulated Asset Base Model Section 8: Procedure etc relating to modifications under section 6 or 7
This section sets out the procedure the Secretary of State must follow when making licence modifications under sections 6(1) or (7) or 7(1) (defined as a ‘relevant power’). It also provides further details on the types of modification that may be made.
	Subsection (1) obliges the Secretary of State to consult a list of named persons before making any modifications under a relevant power, as well any other person they consider appropriate.
	Subsection (2) clarifies that, in the case of the power under subsection 6(1) and (7), this consultation can be undertaken before or after the passage of this legislation.
	Subsection (3) and subsection (4) provide further information regarding how a relevant power may be exercised and the types of modifications that the Secretary of State may make. Subsection (3) allows the Secretary of State to use the licence modification powers to make modifications which are general or specific or subject to exceptions. It also allows the Secretary of State to exercise the powers differently for different purposes and to make incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional modifications.
	Subsection (4) enables provisions included in a licence or associated document or agreement (such as an industry code) by a modification under these powers to make different provision for different purposes. It also makes clear that any provision included in a licence by such a modification need not relate to the activities that the licence authorises. Subsection (4)(c) provides that a provision included in a licence by virtue of a relevant power may do anything which is authorised for licences of that type by section 7(4), (5)(a) or (6A) of the Electricity Act 1989.
	Subsection (5) obligates the Secretary of State to publish the details of any modification as soon as reasonably possible after it takes place.
	Subsection (6) requires the Authority, where the Secretary of States makes a modification to standard licence conditions, to reflect this change when granting licences of that type in the future. They must also publish the modification.
	Subsection (7) makes clear that any modification of part of a standard condition does not change the status of other parts of that condition for the purposes of the Electricity Act 1989.
	Subsection (8) clarifies that in ‘modifying’ a licence condition, licence term, document or agreement under a relevant power, the Secretary of State may be amending, removing or adding to it.