{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/116",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Standards of Performance) (Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-standards-of-performance-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "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(a) in the definition of “new supplier”, before “responsibility” insert “, or will have,”;\n(b) after the definition of “old supplier” insert—\n““prepayment meter” means any meter operating in a mode that requires a customer to pay for the consumption of gas or electricity through that meter in advance of that consumption;”\n(c) after the definition of “supplier” insert—\n““supplier transfer” means in relation to any domestic premises at which a supplier is supplying gas or electricity, the transfer of responsibility for the supply of gas or electricity to a new supplier;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Definition of ‘new supplier’ was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.I. 2019/218."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/116/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:33:57.985113+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."
}