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Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

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19.  The following terms shall have the meanings given below where they appear in this Schedule:

(a)“fossil fuel” has the meaning given by Article 11(16)(a);

(b)“large hydro generating station” means a hydro generating station which has, or has had at any time since 1st April 2002, a declared net capacity of more than 20 megawatts;

(c)“Non Fossil Fuel Orders” has the meaning that it has in the GBRO Order under which the GBROC was issued;

(d)“on land” in relation to the location of a generating station means wholly or partly on land above mean high water level;

(e)“renewable sources” means sources of energy other than fossil fuel or nuclear fuel, but includes waste of which not more than a specified proportion is waste which is, or is derived from, fossil fuel;

(f)“specified” means specified in this Schedule;

(g)“transmission and distribution network” means any transmission system or any distribution system or both (as transmission system is defined and distribution system is used in the definition of “distribute”, in section 4(4) of the Electricity Act in Great Britain or any equivalent system in another country or in Northern Ireland;

(h)“waste” is to be regarded as including anything derived directly or indirectly from waste (as that term is defined in Article 2(1)).

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