{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-1990/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Payments to eligible persons",
  "text": "(1) Where a public electricity supplier has in discharge of the obligation imposed on him by regulation 6 recovered an amount, that amount shall, subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), be applied in making payments to eligible persons.\n(2) The public electricity supplier may deduct his administrative expenses from the amount mentioned in paragraph (1) before he makes any payment to eligible persons.\n(3) Where payments fall to be made to two or more eligible persons in respect of the same relevant expenses in accordance with paragraph (1), each of those payments shall bear the same proportion to the aggregate of those payments as each payment made by or in relation to an eligible person to whom a payment is to be made in accordance with this regulation bears to the aggregate of the payments made by or in respect of those eligible persons.\n(4) The public electricity supplier shall not be required by this regulation to make a payment to an eligible person if the amount of that payment would, but for this paragraph, be less than £200.\n(5) Payments to eligible persons in accordance with this regulation shall be made as soon as practicable after the public electricity supplier has recovered the amount out of which those payments are to be made.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}