Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2001 (the Principal Regulations). They delete regulations 9-12 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 6 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.