Energy Act 2016

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Number 12 of 2016


ENERGY ACT 2016


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Repeals

PART 2

Change of Name of Commission for Energy Regulation

4. Change of name of Commission for Energy Regulation

PART 3

Power to Carry Out Investigations and Impose Administrative Sanction

5. Investigations and administrative sanction

6. Oral hearings conducted by inspector or by Commission

PART 4

Miscellaneous Amendments to Act of 1999

7. Single Electricity Market: provision in respect of revised arrangements in the State and Northern Ireland

8. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1999

9. Service of notices

10. Prosecution of offences

11. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 1999

12. Functions of Commission for Energy Regulation

13. Increase of penalties

14. Authorised officers

15. Licences to generate and supply electricity

16. Issue of notice by Commission concerning contraventions, etc.

17. Determination by Commission of specified breach

18. Closure of carbon levy account

19. Energy strategy statement

PART 5

Amendments to Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002

20. Definition (Part 5)

21. Amendment of section 13(1) of Act of 2002

22. Amendment of section 16 of Act of 2002

PART 6

Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency

23. Amendment of European Union (Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) Regulations 2014: penalties

PART 7

Amendments to Sustainable Energy Act 2002

24. Definition (Part 7)

25. Amendment of section 10 of Act of 2002

26. Amendment of section 24 of Act of 2002

PART 8

Amendments to National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007

27. Definition (Part 8)

28. Exchange of information

29. Amendment of section 44A of Act of 2007

30. Amendment of section 44G of Act of 2007

31. Amendment of section 44H of Act of 2007

32. Amendment of section 44I of Act of 2007

PART 9

Miscellaneous

33. Amendment of section 72(4) of Registration of Title Act 1964

34. Amendment of section 6 of Continental Shelf Act 1968


Acts Referred to

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Companies Acts

Continental Shelf Act 1968 (No. 14)

Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23)

Finance Act 1999 (No. 2)

Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 (No. 10)

Gas Act 1976 (No. 10)

Intoxicating Liquor Act 1946 (No. 33)

National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 (No. 7)

Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Act 2015 (No. 26)

Registration of Title Act 1964 (No. 16)

Sustainable Energy Act 2002 (No. 2)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 (No. 51)

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Number 12 of 2016


ENERGY ACT 2016


An Act to change the name of the Commission for Energy Regulation; to confer on the Commission powers to carry out investigations and impose administrative sanction; to give further effect to Directive No. 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 20031 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 96/92/EC; to give further effect to Regulation (EC) 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 20092 on conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges in electricity and for that purpose to make provision in respect of certain revised arrangements in the State and Northern Ireland relating to the Single Electricity Market; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) No. 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 20113 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency and for that purpose to amend the European Union (Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 480 of 2014 ); for those and other purposes to amend the Registration of Title Act 1964 , the Gas Act 1976 , the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 , the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 , the Sustainable Energy Act 2002 and the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 ; to amend the Continental Shelf Act 1968 ; to repeal the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1946 ; and to provide for related matters.

[30 th July, 2016]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

1OJ No. L176, 15.7.2003, p.37

2OJ No. L211, 14.8.2009, p.15

3OJ No. L326, 8.12.2011, p.1