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ELECTRICITY
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(b) in relation to an electrical worker, means a person who holds a valid electrical worker licence permitting him to perform personally such electrical work as is specified in his licence;

“low voltage” means a voltage not exceeding 1000V a.c. or 1500V d.c. between conductors, or 600V a.c. or 900V d.c. between each conductor and Earth;

“main” means a supply line through which electricity is or can be supplied, whether the line is in use or not;

“market participant” means a person—

(a) authorised by an electricity licence; and
(b) registered in accordance with the market rules,

to trade in any wholesale electricity market and includes a transmission licensee and any department of the Government which generates electricity before the appointed day;

“market rules ”means the rules made or modified under section 46;

“market support services” means any of the following activities in connection with the supply of electricity:

(a) the reading of the register of any electricity meter and the management of data relating to meter reading;
(b) the facilitation of access to any wholesale electricity market for the purposes of obtaining supply of electricity for contestable consumers and retail electricity licensees;
(c) the provision of customer transfer services for retail electricity licensees and consumers to facilitate the transfer of contestable consumers between one retail electricity licensee and another or between retail electricity licensees and market support services licensees;
(d) the provision of other services related to access to any wholesale electricity market and the retail electricity market; and
(e) the supply and sale of electricity to non-contestable consumers;