Regulation 15 Amendment of regulation 9 (investigation of complaints by the General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland)

for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) substitute—

“(a)

“domestic end user”, in relation to an intermediary, means an end user who purchases heating or hot water for domestic use from the intermediary;

(b)

“intermediary” means—

(i)

a heat supplier within the meaning of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014^f1; or

(ii)

a person who otherwise supplies and charges for the supply of heating or hot water to its end users through a heat network, where that person has been provided with a scheme benefit in accordance with regulation 3(2)(a) or (b) of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022^f2 in respect of the energy used to produce the heating or hot water;

(c)

“microbusiness end user”, in relation to an intermediary, means an end user who purchases heating or hot water from the intermediary for use in a business which employs fewer than 10 employees and has an annual turnover or balance sheet total no greater than £2 million;”;

sub-paragraph (e) is renumbered as sub-paragraph (d).