{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-supply-company-administration-scotland-rules-2013/rule-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-supply-company-administration-scotland-rules-2013/rule-86.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Supply Company Administration (Scotland) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-supply-company-administration-scotland-rules-2013",
  "path": "rule/86",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Use of websites by energy administrator",
  "text": "(1) This Rule applies for the purposes of section 246B of the 1986 Act (use of websites).\n(2) An energy administrator required to give, deliver or send a document to any person may (other than in a case where personal service is required) satisfy that requirement by sending that person a notice—\n(a) stating that the document is available for viewing and downloading on a website;\n(b) specifying the address of that website together with any password necessary to view and download the document from that site; and\n(c) containing a statement that the person to whom the notice is given, delivered or sent may request a hard copy of the document and specifying a telephone number, e-mail address and postal address which may be used to request a hard copy.\n(3) Where a notice to which this Rule applies is sent, the document to which it relates must—\n(a) be available on the website for a period of not less than 3 months after the date on which the notice is sent; and\n(b) must be in such a format as to enable it to be downloaded from the website within a reasonable time of an electronic request being made for it to be downloaded.\n(4) Where a hard copy of the document is requested it must be sent within 5 business days of the receipt of the request by the energy administrator, who may not make a charge for sending it in that form.\n(5) Where a document is given, delivered or sent to a person by means of a website in accordance with this Rule, it is deemed to have been delivered—\n(a) when the document was first made available on the website; or\n(b) if later, when the notice under paragraph (2) was delivered to that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 246B was inserted by S.I. 2010/18, Article 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1047/rule/86",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:55:52.675654+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."
}