{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2005/699), which prescribe the sums that electricity suppliers and distributors must pay to a customer by way of compensation for failure to meet specified standards of performance in respect of the services to be provided by such suppliers or distributors, subject to certain exemptions.\nThe main changes are—\namending the guaranteed standards of performance under severe weather conditions by reducing the additional payment intervals from 12 to 6 hours, with the compensation payable halved for each individual payment interval,\nupdating the overall regulations to allow all prescribed payments to be made by bank transfer,\nincreasing the prescribed sums and the prescribed caps for severe weather events, and\nintroducing a mechanism for the prescribed sums and the prescribed caps to change in line with CPIH and rounded to the nearest £5.\nThese Regulations amend the Electricity (Connection Standards of Performance) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/698), which prescribe the sum that an electricity distributor must pay to a customer or relevant authority as appropriate by way of compensation for failure to meet specified standards of performance in respect of the connection services to be provided by electricity distributor.\nThe main changes are—\nupdating the prescribed sums; and\nintroducing a mechanism for the prescribed sums to change in line with CPIH and rounded to the nearest £5.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/887/note",
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  "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."
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