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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348276152",
  "legislation_title": "The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Regulation 20 amended (scope of authorisation conditions)",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 20 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (b) after “connected to” insert “, or supplied by means of,”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (c) for “the operator of a relevant heat network to make an offer of connection” substitute “an authorised person to make an offer of connection or supply”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (d) after “maintaining” insert “, and the operation of,”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (e)(iv) insert—\n“(v) the conduct of authorised persons towards heat network consumers or in relation to premises connected, or proposed to be connected, to a relevant heat network, including—\n(aa) a condition about conduct if payments relating to the supply of heating, cooling or hot water are not made (including restricting when premises may be disconnected);\n(bb) a condition requiring credit to be provided to heat network consumers with pre-payment meters;”;\n(e) in sub-paragraph (g) in the words before paragraph (i) after “complying with technical standards” insert “(including those for which provision is made in a designated document)”;\n(f) after sub-paragraph (j) insert—\n“(ja) conditions requiring an authorised person to comply with the provisions of a designated document;\n(jb) conditions—\n(i) requiring an authorised person to pay such sums relating to the costs of a heat network administration order as may be determined by the Secretary of State under the conditions to such persons as may be so determined for the purpose of—\n(aa) enabling the Secretary of State to recover losses and expenses referred to in paragraph (5)(a);\n(bb) reducing or discharging obligations referred to in paragraph (5)(b);\n(ii) requiring or enabling an authorised person to modify the charges on heat network consumers imposed by the authorised person so as to raise those sums;\n(iii) requiring the sums so raised to be held on trust pending payment;”.\n(3) After paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) For the purpose of a condition referred to in paragraph (1)(e)(i)(bb) (disproportionate charges), the Regulator—\n(a) may from time to time specify the methods that are to be used by the Regulator to determine whether charges are disproportionate; and\n(b) must publish them in such manner as the Regulator thinks appropriate.”.\n(4) After paragraph (4) insert—\n“(5) For the purpose of this regulation, the costs of a heat network administration order are—\n(a) losses and expenses—\n(i) that are incurred by the Secretary of State in, as a result of or in connection with giving relevant financial assistance—\n(aa) to, or in respect of, a company that is or was subject to the order; or\n(bb) otherwise in connection with the order; and\n(ii) that the Secretary of State does not expect to recover (except by means of an authorisation condition);\n(b) obligations of the company subject to the order to make payments—\n(i) in respect of the expenses or remuneration of the heat network administrator of the company;\n(ii) in discharge of a debt or liability of the company arising out of a contract entered into by the heat network administrator at a time when the order was in force;\n(iii) in respect of interest on relevant financial assistance or any expenses, remuneration, debt or liability referred to in paragraph (i) or (ii),\nto the extent that the property of the company available to pay them is insufficient.\n(6) In paragraph (5), “relevant financial assistance” means any of the following—\n(a) a grant or loan given under section 165 of the Energy Act 2004, as applied by regulation 59D;\n(b) a sum paid by the Secretary of State in consequence of an indemnity given under section 166 of that Act, as so applied;\n(c) a sum paid out by the Secretary of State under a guarantee given under section 167 of that Act, as so applied.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Designated document” is defined in paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 18 to the Energy Act 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 217(1)(a) of the Energy Act 2023 for the definition of “the Regulator”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:26.325865+00:00"
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  "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."
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