{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-pass-through-requirement-heat-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-pass-through-requirement-heat-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1280",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-pass-through-requirement-heat-suppliers-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 9 (investigation of complaints by the General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland)",
  "text": "In regulation 9(2), in the modified Article 22(10)—\n(a) for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) substitute—\n“(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;\n(b) “intermediary” means—\n(i) a heat supplier within the meaning of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014; or\n(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 in respect of the energy used to produce the heating or hot water;\n(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;”;\n(b) sub-paragraph (e) is renumbered as sub-paragraph (d).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/3120, amended by S.I. 2015/855 and 2020/1221."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2022/1124."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1280/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:52:34.371340+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."
}