Clause 93 - Competitive tenders for offshore transmission licences
Energy Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Shadow Minister, Environment & Transport; Vale of York, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 169, in
clause 93, page 71, line 7, at end insert
'having regard to navigational, maritime and shipping interests and in consultation with the Department for Transport and the Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.'.
The clause inserts a new section 6C into the 1989 Act to enable GEMA to make regulations setting out the process to be followed when it awards offshore transmission licences by competitive tender. The important point that has been identified by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire is that we are chartering—