{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-regulations-2022/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-regulations-2022/regulation-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1100",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Bill Relief Scheme Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bill-relief-scheme-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Increases in charges and other changes in relation to supply contracts",
  "text": "(1) A supplier must not, in respect of energy supplied under a supply contract, unreasonably—\n(a) increase the rates at which it charges qualifying amounts,\n(b) expose a customer to any additional risk, or\n(c) change—\n(i) the terms of the supply contract;\n(ii) the terms on which the supplier offers to enter into supply contracts;\n(iii) the process by which prices or charges payable under supply contracts are set;\n(iv) the way in which the supplier exercises its rights under its supply contracts,\nso that any of them are less favourable to the customer.\n(2) For the purposes of determining whether a supplier has behaved unreasonably in doing any of the things referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (c)—\n(a) a supplier’s conduct is, in particular, unreasonable if, and to the extent that, the conduct, or the supplier’s ability to retain the customer as a customer while engaging in it, is facilitated by the existence or operation of the scheme;\n(b) it is, in particular, reasonable for a supplier to increase its charges—\n(i) to its customers collectively, by an amount that in aggregate does not exceed the efficiently incurred costs of complying with these Regulations;\n(ii) to any customer, by an amount that does not exceed its fair and reasonable share of such efficiently incurred costs (but this does not entitle a supplier to increase the qualifying amounts payable by a QFDC above the levels resulting from the application of regulation 53(1)(b)).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 55 in force at 1.11.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1100/regulation/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:54:30.826970+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."
}