{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electric-vehicles-smart-charge-points-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348228434",
  "legislation_title": "The Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electric-vehicles-smart-charge-points-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“civil sanction” means a compliance notice or a civil penalty imposed pursuant to Schedule 2;\n“communications network” means an electronic communications network, being a transmission system for the conveyance, by the use of electrical, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of signals of any description;\n“cyber-attack” means exploitation of a relevant charge point’s smart functionality or of a communications network to cause harm or disruption;\n“demand side response services” means—\n(a) increasing or decreasing the rate of electricity flowing through a charge point; or\n(b) changing the time at which electricity flows through the charge point,\nwholly or primarily for the benefit of the electricity system;\n“DSR agreement” means an agreement pursuant to which the owner of a relevant charge point has agreed that the relevant charge point will provide demand side response services;\n“electric vehicle” means a vehicle that is capable of being propelled by electrical power derived from a storage battery;\n“enforcement authority” means the Secretary of State;\n“owner” means—\n(a) in the case of a workplace charge point, the person to whom a relevant charge point is sold and who makes the relevant charge point available for use as a workplace charge point;\n(b) in all other cases, the end-user to whom a relevant charge point is sold;\n“personal data” has the meaning given in article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;\n“relevant charge point” means a charge point to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;\n“relevant product” means a charge point or any charge point component or part;\n“response DSR services” means demand side response services where the provision of such services is directly controlled by a person other than the owner, or another end-user, of the relevant charge point, and that control is effected by the person sending signals or other information to the charge point via a communications network;\n“smart functionality” has the meaning given by regulation 5(2);\n“statement of compliance” has the meaning given by regulation 13(2);\n“workplace charge point” has the meaning given by regulation 3(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The meaning of “sell” is set out in the Automated and Electrical Vehicles Act 2018 c.18, section 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 119 4.5.2016, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2018 c. 16. Section 3 was amended by section 25(2) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348228434/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:46:33.538011+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}