Code manager standard licence conditions: determination notice (accessible webpage)
Published 14 May 2026
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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Standard Conditions of Code Manager Licences
The Secretary of State (together with the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority) published, on 1 May 2025 a consultation entitled ‘Energy Code Reform: Consultation on Code Manager Licence Conditions and Code Modification Appeals to the Competition and Markets Authority’ and on 23 March 2026 a joint response to that consultation entitled ‘Energy Code Reform: Government and Ofgem Response to the Consultation on Code Manager Licence Conditions and Code Modification Appeals to the CMA’. In accordance with the decisions (so far as relating to standard conditions of code manager licences) in that response to consultation the Secretary of State makes the following determinations.
Pursuant to section 33(1) of the Utilities Act 2000, the Secretary of State determines that the conditions attached to this notice are standard conditions for the purposes of licences of the type specified in section 6(1)(g) of the Electricity Act 1989.
Pursuant to section 81(2) of the Utilities Act 2000, the Secretary of State determines that the conditions attached to this notice are standard conditions for the purposes of licences of the type specified in section 7AC(1) of the Gas Act 1986.
Michael Shanks MP Minister of State for Energy