Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2001 (the Principal Regulations). They also revoke the Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 but incorporate their provisions in these Regulations.

These Regulations insert a new regulation, as regulation 5A which provides that, where the conveyance of electricity to a customer’s premises is discontinued on more than 3 occasions in a year for more than 3 hours on each occasion, the distribution company of that customer will pay the customer the prescribed sum.

These Regulations delete regulations 9 to 12 of the Principal Regulations and replace them with new regulations 13A and B which are in substantially similar form to the revoked regulations 10 and 11 but apply to all electricity suppliers, and make consequential amendments to the Principal Regulations, arising from the deletion and replacement. Regulation 8 also amends regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations to provide that, where payments under the Principal Regulations are to be made by a relevant distributor to a customer, they are to be made to the electricity supplier of that customer for onward transmission to the customer.