{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/476",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "Regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations shall be amended—\n(a) by substituting for the words “This regulation applies”, in paragraph (1), the words “Paragraph (2) applies”;\n(b) by replacing sub-paragraph (1)(b) with—\n“(b) where an electricity supplier is obliged by paragraph (2B) to pass on a payment made by a relevant distributor to the electricity supplier’s customer.”;\n(c) by inserting the following new paragraph after paragraph (1)—\n“(1A) Paragraph (2A) applies where a relevant distributor is obliged to make a payment to a customer under any of regulations 4 to 8 (inclusive) and 14.”\n(d) by substituting for the words “this regulation applies”, in paragraph (2), the words “this paragraph applies”;\n(e) by inserting the following new paragraphs after paragraph (2)—\n“(2A) Where this paragraph applies and the relevant distributor fails within the prescribed period from the applicable date to dispatch a notice to the electricity supplier advising that the payment is due to the electricity supplier’s customer and to make payment to the electricity supplier for onward transmission to the customer of the sum to which he is entitled, the relevant distributor shall, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (3), pay to the electricity supplier the prescribed sum for onward transmission to the customer.\n(2B) Where paragraph (2A) applies and the relevant distributor makes a payment to the electricity supplier for onward transmission to the customer, the electricity supplier shall pass on the payment made by the relevant distributor to the customer.”;\n(f) by inserting at the end of sub-paragraph (b) in paragraph (4) “and”; and\n(g) by deleting sub-paragraph (4)(c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/476/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:13:59.341048+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."
}