{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/698",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Connection Standards of Performance) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-connection-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Payments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies to an electricity distributor where it is obliged to make a payment to a customer or a relevant authority (as appropriate) under any of regulations 4 to 12 and the electricity distributor fails to make the payment to the customer or relevant authority (as appropriate) within the prescribed period from the payment date.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of payments due to a relevant authority under any of regulations 10, 11 and 12 if the relevant authority has agreed to accept any such payments on a consolidated basis.\n(3) Where this regulation applies, the electricity distributor must, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (4), pay the prescribed sum to the customer or relevant authority (as appropriate).\n(4) The circumstances described in this paragraph are—\n(a) each of the circumstances described in regulation 15;\n(b) that there is a genuine dispute between the electricity distributor and the customer or relevant authority as to whether the electricity distributor is obliged to make the payment; and\n(c) that the electricity distributor does not have, for the customer or relevant authority (as appropriate), a postal address in Great Britain or bank account details to which the payment could be sent, and has made reasonable endeavours to obtain such an address or details.\n(5) Nothing in, or done by an electricity distributor in consequence of, these Regulations can determine who is beneficially entitled to any payment made in pursuance of these Regulations.\n(6) Nothing in these Regulations permits an electricity distributor to make a payment other than by means of—\n(a) a cheque or cash;\n(b) electronic transmission of the amount in question; or\n(c) a credit to the account of the customer or relevant authority by way of set-off for charges incurred or to be incurred in respect of the provision of any connection to the electricity distributor’s distribution system.\n(7) Where the electricity distributor makes a payment under these Regulations by way of a cheque, that payment is deemed to have been made on the day that the cheque is posted to the recipient.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/698/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:35.566432+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."
}