{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-153",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-153.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2483",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Administration Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/153",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "153",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to regulate certain matters",
  "text": "(1) Pursuant to paragraph 27 of Schedule 8 to the 1986 Act the Secretary of State may, subject to the 1986 Act, the 2004 Act, Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act and the Rules, make regulations with respect to any matter provided for in the Rules as relates to the carrying out of the functions of an energy administrator of a protected energy company, including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, with respect to the following matters arising in an energy administration—\n(a) the preparation and keeping of books, accounts and other records, and their production to such persons as may be authorised or required to inspect them;\n(b) the auditing of an energy administrator’s accounts;\n(c) the manner in which an energy administrator is to act in relation to the protected energy company’s books, papers and other records, and the manner of their disposal by the energy administrator or others;\n(d) the supply by the energy administrator to creditors and members of the protected energy company of copies of documents relating to the energy administration and the affairs of the protected energy company (on payment, in such cases as may be specified by the regulations, of the specified fee).\n(2) Regulations made pursuant to paragraph (1) may—\n(a) confer discretion on the court;\n(b) make non-compliance with any of the regulations a criminal offence;\n(c) make different provision for different cases, including different provision for different areas; and\n(d) contain such incidental, supplemental and transitional provisions as may appear to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 153 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2483/article/153",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:53.544569+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."
}