{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2665",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided for in paragraph (2), in so far as these Regulations apply to any generator, distributor, supplier or meter operator, they shall also apply to any agent, contractor or sub-contractor of his acting on his behalf in relation to a matter which is the subject of these Regulations.\n(2) Regulations 4, 15, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 and 32 shall not apply to any agent, contractor or sub-contractor.\n(3) Regulation 3(2) shall not apply until, in the case of overhead lines, 5 years, and, in the case of substations, 2 years after the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(4) Regulation 7(2) shall not apply to any distributor’s fusible cut-out brought into use on or before 31st December 1936, until 10 years after the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(5) Regulation 11(c) shall not apply until 2 years after the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(6) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 14 shall not apply to any low voltage underground cable installed on or before the day before the day on which these Regulations come into force.\n(7) Regulations 19(2) and 20 shall not apply until 10 years after the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(7A) Regulation 20A shall not apply until 6 years after the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(8) Where a material alteration is made to any part of a network, the provisions in paragraphs (4) to (7) shall cease to apply to that part of the network from the date of that alteration.\n(9) Where any provision of these Regulations does not apply to any network, or part of a network, by virtue of any of the provisions of paragraphs (4) to (7), any equivalent provision which applied to the network, or part of it, as the case may be, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations by virtue of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988 including any approval, authority or exemption granted or given under or pursuant to that provision shall apply as if that equivalent provision had been contained in these Regulations.\n(10) Where any provision of these Regulations is equivalent to a provision which applied to any network, or part of a network, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations by virtue of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988, any approval, authority or exemption granted or given under or pursuant to the latter provision which was in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations shall continue in force and shall have effect as if granted or given under or pursuant to the former provision but shall cease to have effect one year after the coming into force of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(7A) inserted (1.10.2006) by The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1521), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1057, amended by S.I. 1990/390, 1992/2961, 1994/533, 1994/3021, 1998/2971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2665/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:43:15.022339+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."
}