{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-unmetered-supply-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-unmetered-supply-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3263",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Unmetered Supply) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-unmetered-supply-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Circumstances permitting unmetered supply",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), an unmetered supply may be given where—\n(a) the electrical load is of a predictable nature, and\n(b) either—\n(i) the electrical load is less than 500W; or\n(ii) it is not practical for a supply of electricity to be given through an appropriate meter at the premises due to—\n(aa) the anticipated metering costs in the particular case being significantly higher than the usual metering costs associated with that size of electrical load;\n(bb) technical difficulties associated with providing such a meter in the particular case; or\n(cc) operation of law so as to prohibit or make excessively difficult the provision of such a meter in the particular case.\n(2) Subject to regulation 4, an unmetered supply shall only be given where the authorised distributor, authorised supplier and the customer have agreed to such a supply.\n(3) An unmetered supply which does not fall into the categories given in sub-paragraph (1) and which is first given prior to the date on which these Regulations came into force and which has been so supplied since that date, may continue to be an unmetered supply where the authorised distributor, authorised supplier and customer concerned agree to such continuation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3263/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:06.645974+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."
}