Commentary on Sections Section 90: Smart meters: supplemental and Schedule 5: minor and consequential amendments
475.This section makes three supplemental provisions in relation to the modification power conferred by section 88. Subsection (1) ensures that any modifications made to a standard licence condition under this power do not prevent any other part of the condition from being a standard condition. This means that the remainder of the standard condition will be subject to the rules relating to standard conditions under the Gas and Electricity Acts. Subsection (2) ensures that where licence modifications are made to standard licence conditions, the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority must make the same modifications for the purpose of future licences, and also must publish those modifications. Schedule 5 amends sections 33(1) and 81(2) of the Utilities Act 2000 so that any standard conditions which are modified under section 88(1) are incorporated as standard conditions for licences of that type.
476.Subsection (3) is an order making power for the Secretary of State to make consequential amendments to provisions made by or under an Act (including Acts of the Scottish Parliament) as he considers appropriate.