s 27 Fuel stocks
27.—(1) In respect of any generating station, the Authority may give a direction requiring the electricity licensee who operates it —(a) to make such arrangements with respect to stocks of fuel held at or near that generating station for the purposes of its operation as will —(i) enable those stocks to be brought within a specified time to, and thereafter maintained at, a specified level; and (ii) ensure that they do not fall below that level, except as may be permitted by the terms of the direction or by a direction under subsection (2); and (b) to create such stocks and make such arrangements with respect to them, and the amount of any stocks may be specified by reference to the period for which it would enable the generating station to be maintained in operation. (2) In respect of any generating station, the Authority may, in the event of an emergency, give a direction —(a) authorising or requiring the electricity licensee who operates it to make such use as may be specified of any stocks held at or near that generating station; and (b) requiring that electricity licensee to operate, or not to operate, that generating station for specified periods, at specified levels of capacity or use specified fuels. (3) In this section, “specified” means specified by or under the direction of the Authority and such direction may —(a) specify the cases and circumstances in which any stocks are to be treated as held at or near any generating station; (b) specify the extent to which the direction may be treated as complied with; (c) specify the manner in which any period mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) is to be determined; and (d) require anything falling to be specified under the direction to be specified by such person and by reference to such matters as may be specified. (4) A direction under subsection (1) or (2) which confers on any person the function of specifying anything falling to be specified under the direction may require that person to exercise that function in the manner specified by the direction.