{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3265",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Relevant distributor’s fuse",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a relevant distributor is informed (other than by post) by a customer that, or of circumstances suggesting that, the relevant distributor’s fuse has operated so as to disconnect the supply to the customer’s premises.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where information is received by a relevant distributor outside working hours it shall be deemed to have been received at the commencement of the next following working hours.\n(3) Where, within the prescribed period from the applicable date, an appropriate person fails to attend at the premises where the relevant distributor’s fuse is situated for the purpose of replacing or reinstating the relevant distributor’s fuse and restoring the supply, the relevant distributor shall, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (4), pay to the customer the prescribed sum.\n(4) The circumstances described in this paragraph are—\n(a) each of the circumstances described in regulation 17;\n(b) that the customer requested the relevant distributor not to restore the supply; and\n(c) that the relevant distributor’s fuse had not operated so as to disconnect the supply.\n(5) In this regulation “appropriate person” means a person employed or authorised by a relevant distributor to restore the supply where the relevant distributor’s fuse has operated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3265/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:05.408477+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."
}