{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 11 (offences)",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 11 (offences) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1), after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) regulation 5 (requirements relating to meters);”.\n(3) After paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) No person may be prosecuted for—\n(a) an offence under paragraph (1)(b) in respect of any failure to comply with regulation 4(8) which occurred before 1st September 2022;\n(b) an offence under paragraph (1)(ba) in respect of any meter installed before 27th November 2020 where the offence occurred before 1st September 2022;\n(c) an offence under paragraph (1)(c) in respect of any failure to comply with regulation 6(6) which occurred before 1st September 2022 where a heat cost allocator was installed other than in compliance with a duty under these Regulations;\n(d) an offence under paragraph (1)(d) in respect of any failure to comply with regulation 7(1) which occurred before 1st September 2022 where a replacement meter was installed other than in compliance with a duty under these Regulations;\n(e) an offence under paragraph (1)(e) in respect of any failure to comply with regulation 8 which occurred before 1st September 2022 where a meter or heat cost allocator was installed other than in compliance with a duty under these Regulations;\n(f) an offence under paragraph (1)(f) in respect of any failure to comply with regulation 9(1) which occurred before 1st September 2022 where a meter or heat cost allocator was installed other than in compliance with a duty under these Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1221/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:32.434297+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."
}