{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-prepayment-meter-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-prepayment-meter-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2010",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Prepayment Meter) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-prepayment-meter-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“gas supplier” means the holder of a licence under section 7A(1)(a) of the Gas Act 1986 except where the holder is acting otherwise than for purposes connected with the carrying on of activities authorised by the licence;\n“ongoing gas consumption” means gas consumed after the date an agreement under regulation 4 is sent to the customer;\n“prepayment meter” means an electricity prepayment meter installed by an authorised supplier through which the customer takes his supply of electricity;\n“repayment amount” means the amount of each instalment to be paid towards the repayment of the sum owed;\n“repayment rate” means the frequency with which instalments are to be paid towards the repayment of the sum owed; and\n“sum owed” means the aggregate of sums specified under regulation 3 owed at the time an agreement under regulation 4 is sent to the customer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2010/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:40.883920+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."
}