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Rh :(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) For the purposes of this section, “specified” means specified by or under the Authority’s direction 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. PART IV CONTROL OF ELECTRICITY LICENSEES Special administration order

28.—(1) A special administration order is an order of the Minister made in accordance with section 29 in relation to an electricity licensee directing that, during the period for which the order is in force, the affairs, business and property of that electricity licensee shall be managed directly or indirectly by the Authority—
 * (a) for securing one or more of the purposes of such an order set out in subsection (2); and
 * (b) in a manner which protects the respective interests of the shareholders and creditors of that electricity licensee.

(2) The purposes referred to in subsection (1) (a) are—
 * (a) the security and reliability of the supply of electricity to the public;