{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/741",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-standards-of-performance-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 7 shall be amended—\n(a) by substituting for the words “regulations 3 to 5 (inclusive)” in paragraph (1) the words “regulations 3, 4 or 5”;\n(b) by inserting the following new paragraph after paragraph (1)—\n“(1A) Paragraph 2A applies where a relevant gas transporter is obliged to make a payment to a customer under any of regulations 4A to 4C (inclusive) and 5.”;\n(c) by inserting the following new paragraph after paragraph (2)—\n“(2A) Where this paragraph applies and the relevant gas transporter fails within the prescribed period from the applicable date to dispatch a notice to the customer or to the gas shipper in respect of the customer’s premises advising that the payment is due to the customer and to make the payment to the customer or, where the notice has been dispatched to the gas shipper, to the gas shipper for onward transmission to the gas supplier of the customer of the sum to which the customer is entitled, the relevant gas transporter shall, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (3) pay to the customer, or to the gas shipper for onward transmission to the gas supplier of the customer, the prescribed sum”.\n(d) by inserting the following new sub-paragraph after sub-paragraph (4)(c)—\n“(d) where a relevant gas transporter elects to dispatch a notice or make any payment directly to a customer, the dispatch of the notice or payment by the relevant gas transporter to a person whom it reasonably believes to be the customer of the premises in relation to which the entitlement arises shall be a complete discharge of the obligation of the relevant gas transporter to dispatch the notice or make the payment to the actual customer of those premises.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/741/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:10:37.775943+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."
}