{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Part 3A inserted",
  "text": "After regulation 27 insert—\n“PART 3A\nSupply to premises\nDeemed contracts\n27A. (1) This regulation applies to authorised persons who carry on a regulated activity referred to in regulation 13(1)(b) (supplying heating, cooling or hot water to a heat network consumer by means of a relevant heat network).\n(2) Where premises are supplied with heating, cooling or hot water by an authorised person without agreement as to the terms on which the supply is made, the authorised person is deemed to have made a contract for the supply (a “deemed contract”) with the occupier or, if the premises are unoccupied, the owner as from the relevant time.\n(3) The “relevant time” is the time the supply begins or, if the supply begins before this regulation comes into force, 27th January 2026.\n(4) A deemed contract must be treated as incorporating the express terms and conditions determined under a scheme made under paragraph (5).\n(5) Except where it is reasonably expected that paragraph (2) will not apply, each authorised person must make, and may from time to time revise, a scheme for determining the express terms and conditions of a deemed contract.\n(6) The terms and conditions determined under a scheme—\n(a) may include terms and conditions to enable the authorised person to determine, in any case where the meter (if any) is not read immediately before the relevant time, the quantity of heating, cooling or hot water to be treated as supplied to, or consumed at, the premises during the period beginning with the relevant time and ending with the earlier of—\n(i) the time when the meter is first read after the relevant time; and\n(ii) the time when the authorised person ceases to supply heating, cooling or hot water to the premises;\n(b) must provide that the charges payable for the supply are no higher than those payable under the authorised person’s applicable standard variable supply contract;\n(c) must comply with the authorisation conditions of the authorised person’s heat network authorisation.\n(7) A scheme may make different provisions for different cases or classes of cases, or for different areas, determined by, or in accordance with, the provisions of the scheme.\n(8) As soon as reasonably practicable after an authorised person makes or revises a scheme, the authorised person must—\n(a) publish, in such manner as the authorised person considers appropriate for bringing it to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it, a notice stating the effect of the scheme or the revised scheme; and\n(b) send a copy of the scheme or the revised scheme to the Regulator, Citizens Advice and Consumer Scotland.\n(9) If requested to do so by, or on behalf of, a heat network consumer supplied by means of the relevant heat network to which an authorised person’s heat network authorisation relates, the authorised person must, without charge, send a copy of a scheme or a revised scheme to the person making the request.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348276152/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:26.325865+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."
}