{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-1993/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-1993/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1193",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Notice of supply interruption",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a supplier discontinues the supply to a customer’s premises for an authorised purpose.\n(2) Where this regulation applies and the supplier—\n(a) has failed to give to the customer prior notice of not less than the prescribed period, stating the day upon which the supply is or is expected to be discontinued; or\n(b) disconnects the supply on a day other than a day stated in the notice,\nthe supplier shall, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (3), pay to the customer the prescribed sum.\n(3) The circumstances described in this paragraph are—\n(a) each of the circumstances described in paragraphs (3), (6) and (7) of regulation 15; and\n(b) that the supplier has not received a claim for compensation from the customer in respect of the failure referred to in paragraph (2) within a period of one month from the commencement date.\n(4) In this regulation “authorised purpose” means testing or any other purpose connected with the carrying on of the activities which he is authorised by his licence to carry on in relation to his electric lines and electrical plant (other than the supplier’s fuse).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1193/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:57:20.511143+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."
}