{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Connection Charges) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible person”",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“eligible person” means any person who at the relevant time owns or occupies the relevant premises, and is—\n(a)an initial contributor;\n(b)a person who has been required to make a contribution to an electricity distributor or a public electricity supplier in accordance with these Regulations or the Old Regulations; or\n(c)a person to whom any right to receive a payment in accordance with these Regulations or the Old Regulations has been legally assigned.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “relevant premises” means the ... premises owned or occupied by a person at the time when he became either—\n(a) an initial contributor; or\n(b) a person required to make a contribution to an electricity distributor or a public electricity supplier in accordance with these Regulations or the Old Regulations,\nin respect of the connection to those premises.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) revoked (1.6.2003) by The Electricity (Connection Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3232), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/93/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:16:40.662131+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."
}