{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Standards of Performance) (Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) (General interpretation) of the Principal Regulations—\n(1) for the definition of “individual standard of performance” substitute—\n““individual standard of performance” means one of the standards of performance a supplier is required to meet under regulations 3 to 6D;”;\n(2) after the definition of “micro-business customer” insert—\n““new supplier” means a supplier who has responsibility for the supply of electricity or gas to the customer after the transfer of the customer from the old supplier to the new supplier;\n“old supplier” means a supplier who had responsibility for the supply of electricity or gas to the customer prior to the transfer of the customer to the new supplier;”;\n(3) after the definition of “supplier” insert—\n““last resort supply direction” means a direction given by the Authority to a supplier to take over responsibility for the supply of electricity or gas to customers of a failed supplier;\n“valid contract” means a contract for the supply of electricity or gas by the supplier to the customer—\n(a) that has been entered into by the customer;\n(b) that relates to the premises for which the transfer has been made; and\n(c) for which the notice of cancellation of that contract has not been received by the new supplier in accordance with any relevant contractual term or applicable statutory provision;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7(3)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989 and section 7B(5)(a)(i) of the Gas Act 1986 enables the Gas and Electricity Markets, through a licence condition, to require a licence holder to comply with any direction given as to such matters as are specified in the licence or are of a description so specified."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/218/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:47:41.378515+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."
}