Electricity Act 1994

The regulator must consider an application for the giving of a special approval and may give, or refuse to give, the approval.

Sections 180(2) to (9), 189(2) to (6) and 197(2) to (7), to the extent the provisions are relevant to the proposed activities, apply to the giving of the approval as if the application were for the issue of a relevant authority.

In this section—proposed activities means the activities proposed to be performed under the special approval.relevant authority means a generation, transmission or distribution authority the applicant would otherwise be required to hold to perform the proposed activities.