{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2012/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525456",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2012",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Notification by suppliers of domestic customers and energy supplied",
  "text": "(1) A supplier must notify the Administrator by the notification date in each year in which any part of the overall obligation period falls of—\n(a) the number of that supplier’s domestic customers in the notification period ending on the 31st December immediately prior to the notification date;\n(b) the amount of electricity or gas supplied to its domestic customers in the notification period ending on the 31st December immediately prior to the notification date.\n(2) Where a supplier fails to do so or where the Administrator is satisfied that a notification is inaccurate, the Administrator may determine for the purposes of paragraph (1) the number of domestic customers of a supplier or the amount of electricity or gas supplied.\n(3) Where a supplier (“S”) is a group company on the 31st December immediately prior to the notification date, S must also notify the Administrator by the notification date of the name of each other supplier in the group, its company registration number and the amount of electricity or gas supplied by the group in the relevant year immediately prior to the notification date.\n(4) In paragraph (3), “each other supplier in the group” means each supplier which makes the type of supply in respect of which S is a supplier.\n(5) Where under paragraph (3) a supplier is a member of a group with another supplier, the amount of electricity or, as applicable, gas supplied by the group in the relevant year immediately prior to the notification date is the amount supplied by those suppliers whether or not a supplier was a member of the group throughout that year.\n(6) Where a supplier fails to provide the information in paragraph (3), or considers any of the information notified by the supplier under that paragraph is inaccurate, the Administrator may for the purposes of that paragraph determine the matters to which that information relates.\n(7) A determination by the Administrator under paragraph (2) or (6) is to be treated as if it were notified by the supplier.\n(8) In this article, “notification date” means—\n(a) 1st September 2012; and\n(b) thereafter, 1st February of the years 2013 and 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525456/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:35.077411+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."
}