# The Electricity (Connection Charges) Regulations 1990, Regulation 5: Entitlement to recover amount in respect of expenses


(1) Subject to regulation 6, a public electricity supplier may require a person requiring a supply of electricity under section 16(1) at any time after the coming into force of these Regulations to pay to the supplier such an amount in respect of the supplier’s relevant expenses as may be reasonable in all the circumstances if–
(a) the supply is required within the prescribed period after the first provision of any electric line or electrical plant used for the purpose of giving the supply;
(b) an initial contributor has made a payment to the supplier in respect of the relevant expenses;
(c) the supplier has not recovered the relevant expenses in full; and
(d) the supplier has made available to the person requesting the supply such information (if any) as may have been reasonably requested by that person for the purpose of ascertaining–
(i) the amount of the relevant expenses;
(ii) the date of the first provision of the line or plant; and
(iii) the amounts paid in respect of the relevant expenses by the initial contributor or by persons previously required to make a payment under these Regulations.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to any electric line or electrical plant first provided before the coming into force of these Regulations as if for sub-paragraph (d)(iii) there were substituted the following sub-paragraph–
“(iii) the amounts paid by all persons to the supplier in respect of the relevant expenses.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/527/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990/regulation-5
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