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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004-assistance-for-areas-with-high-distribution-costs-order-2005/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/528",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Act 2004 (Assistance for Areas with High Distribution Costs) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004-assistance-for-areas-with-high-distribution-costs-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this condition:\n“administration allowance”\nmeans the amount of the licensee’s revenue allowance for administering the assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme with the value specified in or calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 above.\n“assistance amount”\nmeans the amount payable by the licensee to a relevant distributor in any relevant year made pursuant to standard condition C22 (Assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme: payments to a relevant distributor) and with the value specified in or calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 above.\n“assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme”\nmeans the scheme established pursuant to the Energy Act 2004 (Assistance for Areas with High Distribution Costs) Order 2005.\n“authorised supplier”\nhas the same meaning as in section 184 of the Energy Act 2004.\n“base interest rate”\nmeans, in respect of any day, the rate per annum which is equal to the base lending rate from time to time of Barclays Bank PLC as at the close of business on the immediately preceding business day.\n“business day”\nmeans any week day other than a Saturday on which the banks are open for domestic business in the City of London.\n“correction amount”\nmeans the amount for reconciliation of payments in respect of the assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme with the value as specified in or calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 above.\n“late payments”\nmeans payments required to be made by authorised suppliers and not received by the licensee by the due date specified in any invoice issued by the licensee in relation to same pursuant to standard condition C21 (Assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme: payments from authorised suppliers).\n“relevant distributor”\nhas the same meaning as in section 184 of the Energy Act 2004.\n“relevant year”\nmeans a year beginning on 1 April of each calendar year and ending on 31 March of the following calendar year.\n“specified area”\nmeans the area specified in the Energy Act 2004 (Assistance for Areas with High Distribution Costs) Order 2005.\n“total scheme amount”\nmeans the maximum allowable revenue of the licensee in relation to the assistance for areas with high distribution costs scheme with the value specified in or as calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/528/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:07:51.972617+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."
}