{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/699",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-standards-of-performance-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Supply restoration: severe weather conditions",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a relevant electricity distributor where the supply to a customer’s premises is interrupted as a result of a failure of, fault in or damage to that distributor’s distribution system resulting from category 1 severe weather conditions (except where regulation 11 applies).\n(2) This paragraph applies to a relevant electricity distributor where the supply to a customer’s premises is interrupted as a result of a failure of, fault in or damage to that distributor’s distribution system resulting from category 2 severe weather conditions (except where regulation 11 applies).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where paragraph (1) applies, that distributor must, except in each of the circumstances described in regulation 9, pay the prescribed sum to the customer—\n(a) where the supply is not restored to the customer’s premises within the relevant period; and\n(b) in respect of each succeeding period of 6 hours upon the expiry of which the supply is not restored,\nup to the prescribed cap per customer.\n(5) Where paragraph (2) applies, that distributor must, except in each of the circumstances described in regulation 9, pay the prescribed sum to the customer—\n(a) where the supply is not restored to the customer’s premises within the relevant period; and\n(b) in respect of each succeeding period of 6 hours upon the expiry of which the supply is not restored,\nup to the prescribed cap per customer.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3) omitted (1.9.2023) by virtue of The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(4)(b) substituted (1.9.2023) by The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(4)(b) substituted (1.9.2023) by The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(5) substituted (1.11.2024) by The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/984), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(5) substituted (1.11.2024) by The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/984), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 7(6) omitted (1.9.2023) by virtue of The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 7(7) omitted (1.9.2023) by virtue of The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/887), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/699/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:34.848703+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."
}