Legislation – Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025
Schedules
Schedule 1Minor and consequential amendments to the Electricity Act 1989
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(1)
Section 37 (consent required for overhead lines) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (1), for “Secretary of State” substitute “appropriate authority”
.
(3)
In subsection (3)—
(a)
in paragraph (a), for “Secretary of State” substitute “appropriate authority”
;
(b)
in paragraph (b), at the beginning insert “in the case of a consent granted by the Secretary of State,”
;
(c)
after paragraph (b) (but before the “and”) insert—
(d)
in paragraph (c), for “paragraph (b)” substitute “paragraphs (b) and (ba)”
.
(4)
At the end insert—
“(6)
In this section “appropriate authority” means—
(a)
the Scottish Ministers, in relation to an electric line installed above land in Scotland;
(b)
the Secretary of State in all other cases.”