Regulation 12 PaymentsI1

where a gas transporter is obliged to make a payment to a customer whose premises are directly connected to its pipe-line system under any of regulations 7 to 10B (inclusive); or

where a gas transporter receives a payment from another gas transporter for onward transmission to a customer whose premises are directly connected to its pipe-line system.

within the prescribed period from the applicable date, where paragraph 2(a) applies; or

within the prescribed period from the applicable date, where paragraph 2(b) applies,

each of the circumstances described in regulation 13; and

that there is a genuine dispute between the relevant operator and the customer as to whether the relevant operator is obliged to make the payment.

in relation to any premises of which more than one person is a customer, a payment to any one or more of the customers in respect of those premises shall be a complete discharge of the obligation of the relevant operator to make the payment to all the customers of those premises;

nothing in, or done by a relevant operator in consequence of, these Regulations shall determine who is beneficially entitled to any payment made in pursuance of these Regulations; F7...

nothing in these Regulations shall permit a relevant operator to make a payment other than by means of;

where a gas transporter elects to make any payment directly to a customer, the payment by the gas transporter to a person whom it reasonably believes to be the customer in respect of the premises in relation to which the entitlement arises shall be a complete discharge of the obligation of the gas transporter to make the payment to the customer of those premises; and

in relation to a customer whose premises are directly connected to the pipe-line system of another gas transporter, a payment to that other gas transporter for onward transmission to the customer shall be a complete discharge of the obligation of the gas transporter to make the payment to the customer.

“payment” means, in respect of regulations 7, 8, 10 and 10B, the aggregate of payments due to a customer under each of those regulations; and

“applicable date” means—