Under section 54 of the Electricity Supply Act 1990, the Minister may by notification in the Gazette exempt any installation or part thereof, owned or worked by or on behalf of any supply authority or any other particular class of installation, plant or equipment from the provisions of the Act.

By Exemption Order P.U.(B) 156/1994 which took effect from 1.4.1994, the Minister exempts :

• any person who uses, works or operates or permitted to be used, worked or operated any installation using its own source of generation and the capacity of the generator is 5 kilowatt or less, from the requirement of licence;
• any person who is not the owner or operator of an installation receiving electricity from a licensee or supply authority with a generator connected to provide stand by electricity in the event of failure of the primary source of supply or the owner or operator of an installation receiving electricity from a licensee or supply authority at a voltage of 11,000 or more volts, from the requirement of registration of the installation; and
• any person who does not work or operate or is not in control of –
  - any licensed installation;
  - any installation or electrical plant equipment operating at higher than low voltage;
  - any installation or electrical plant equipment operating at low voltage and receiving electricity via a switchgear of rating of 100 ampereas or more; or
  - any installation or electrical plant equipment generating more than 5 kilowatts of electricity, from the requirement of having qualifications and competency certificate.

By Exemption Order P.U.(B)324/2006 which took effect from 2.1.2002, the Minister exempts any installation owned or operated by the Federal Government, State Governments and local authorities from:

• payment of registration fees for issuance of Certificate of Registration or renewal thereof for that installation;
• payment of fees for inspection and testing of the installation for purpose of registration of such installation.

Under section 42 of the Gas Supply Act 1993, the Minister may by notification in the Gazette exempt any person or class of persons from being licensed under the Act and/or from the requirement of work of installing, constructing, maintaining, repairing or operating any gas pipeline or installation or part thereof to be carried out or supervised and certified by a competent person.

By Exemption Order P.U (B) 307/2012 which took effect from 30.7.2012, the Minister exempts any installation licensed under Section 9 of the Act from the registration of such installation as provided under Section 21 of the Act.