{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-regulations-2025/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348266474",
  "legislation_title": "The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-heat-networks-market-framework-great-britain-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interests of other utility consumers",
  "text": "(1) The Regulator or a delegate of the Regulator, in carrying out a function under these Regulations, may have regard to the interests of consumers in relation to—\n(a) electricity conveyed by distribution systems or transmission systems (within the meaning of the Electricity Act 1989);\n(b) gas conveyed through pipes (within the meaning of the Gas Act 1986);\n(c) communications services and electronic communications apparatus which are affected by the carrying out of that function;\n(d) water services or sewerage services (within the meaning of the Water Industry Act 1991) which are affected by the carrying out of that function.\n(2) A person or body exercising a regulatory function in a field mentioned in any sub-paragraph of paragraph (1) may have regard to the interests of heat network consumers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c. 56; the definition of “sewerage services” in section 219(1) was amended by the Water Act 2014 (c. 21), section 94(3) and Schedule 7, paragraph 120(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348266474/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:06.289727+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."
}