{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Connection Charges) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“administrative expenses” means the expenses reasonably incurred by a public electricity supplier in discharging his obligations under these Regulations;\n“domestic premises” means premises used wholly or mainly for domestic purposes;\n“eligible person” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 3;\n“initial contributor” means a person–\n(a) for the purpose of supplying whom any electric line or electrical plant was first provided; and\n(b) who made a payment in respect of the relevant expenses;\n“prescribed period” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 4;\n“relevant expenses” means any expenses reasonably incurred by a public electricity supplier in first providing any electric line or electrical plant which is subsequently used for the purpose of giving a supply to any person other than the initial contributor, and the reference in the foregoing to any expenses reasonably incurred in providing any line or plant includes a reference to the capitalised value of any expenses likely to be so incurred in maintaining it (in so far as they will not be recoverable by the supplier as a part of the charges made by him for the supply to the initial contributor);\n“relevant time” means the time at which is made a requirement for a supply of electricity under section 16(1) compliance with which involves the use of any electric line or electrical plant which has already been provided for the purpose of giving a supply in pursuance of section 16(1).\n(2) In these Regulations–\n(a) any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section bearing that number in the Electricity Act 1989;\n(b) any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations; and\n(c) except where otherwise provided, any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation in which the reference occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/527/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:55.305920+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."
}