Commentary on Sections Part 2: Electricity Market Reform Chapter 3: Capacity Market Section 42: Capacity market rules: further provision
181.This section confers powers for capacity market rules to make the additional changes required to enable them to function. In particular subsection (1) allows for: incidental, supplementary and consequential provision; transitory or transitional provision or savings’ provision for different cases, circumstances or purposes; and to make provision subject to exceptions.
182.Subsections (2) and (3) have the effect that, if electricity capacity regulations give the Authority power to make capacity market rules, that includes power to amend, add to or remove capacity market rules made by the Secretary of State, subject to any provision made by the regulations.