Explanatory note

This Statutory Rule revokes and replaces the earlier Statutory Rule (2009 No. 215) to correct a number of errors and accordingly it is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of the earlier Statutory Rules.

The Regulations require electricity and gas suppliers to provide information to domestic consumers comparing their gas or electricity use in one period with the same period in the previous year. These requirements do not apply in cases where either the supplier has not been contracted to give a supply of gas or electricity to the consumer throughout both of these periods or the consumer has already been provided with a meter which provides him with all the relevant information.

These provisions give effect to Article 13(3)(b) of Directive 2006/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on Energy end use efficiency and energy services and repealing Council Directive 93/76/EEC.

The Regulations also give effect to Article 13 of the EC Regulation No. 1775/05 which requires that Member States establish provisions to penalise infringements of the requirements of that Regulation in relation to conditions for access to the natural gas transmission network. The Regulations amend the Energy Order (NI) 2003 to extend the enforcement powers of the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulations to contraventions of the requirements of that Regulation.

The Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website.