{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3018",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Definition of a supplier",
  "text": "(1) A licence-holder is a supplier where the licence-holder supplies, or for a group company, the group supplies, more than—\n(a) 250,000 domestic customers at the end of 31st December of any relevant year; and\n(b) a qualifying supply in the year ending on that date.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where a licence-holder (“L”) is a member of a group (“G”), the supplies made by G are to be determined by reference to the type of supply in respect of which L is a licence-holder.\n(3) A new supplier is a supplier to whom paragraph (1) applies for the first time on 31st December 2012 or 31st December 2013.\n(4) For the purposes of determining the number of domestic customers of a licence-holder under this Order, a domestic customer who receives electricity and gas from a dual licence-holder is a separate domestic customer under each licence.\n(5) Where a dual licence-holder satisfies paragraph (1) in respect of electricity or gas that licence-holder is a separate supplier in respect of each supply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 5.12.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:31.792416+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."
}