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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/984",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2024",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/699) (“the Principal Regulations”), 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. The provisions of the Principal Regulations amended by these Regulations relate to electricity distributors.\nRegulation 2(2) amends the definitions of “category 1 severe weather conditions” and “category 2 severe weather conditions” as a consequence of the removal of the definition of “category 3 severe weather conditions” under the Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887). Regulations 2(3) and (5) make further consequential changes on the removal of the “category 3 severe weather condition” definition.\nRegulation 2(4) amends regulation 7(5) of the Principal Regulations to reduce the time period from 12 hours to 6 hours for each period of time that compensation is payable after the relevant period has expired. The maximum amount that can be paid to a customer under this provision has been increased from £700 to the prescribed cap as set out in Part 1A of Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations.\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.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/984/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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