{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2017/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/106",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Connection Charges) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-charges-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Eligible persons",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part, where a second connection is made, each of the following persons is an “eligible person” in relation to first connection expenses—\n(a) a person who—\n(i) is an initial contributor; and\n(ii) at the relevant time owns or occupies the premises, or owns the distribution system (as the case may be), to which the first connection was made;\n(b) a person who—\n(i) has, on a previous occasion when a second connection was made (“the previous connection”), made a payment under these Regulations in respect of the first connection expenses; and\n(ii) at the relevant time owns or occupies the premises, or owns the distribution system (as the case may be), to which the previous connection was made;\n(c) a person who—\n(i) has been assigned a right to receive a reimbursement payment; and\n(ii) at the relevant time owns or occupies the premises, or owns the distribution system (as the case may be), to which the first connection was made;\n(d) an electricity distributor which has incurred first connection expenses which it has not previously fully recovered from any other person; or\n(e) a person other than—\n(i) an initial contributor;\n(ii) a person who has made a payment under these Regulations; or\n(iii) an electricity distributor,\nthat has made a payment to an electricity distributor or to an independent connection provider in respect of the first connection expenses.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “the relevant time” means the time at which the second connection is made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 6.4.2017, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/106/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:15:39.273672+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."
}