{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smart-meter-communication-licensee-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2020/article-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smart-meter-communication-licensee-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2020/article-88.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/629",
  "legislation_title": "The Smart Meter Communication Licensee Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smart-meter-communication-licensee-administration-england-and-wales-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/88",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Fixing of remuneration",
  "text": "(1) The SMCL administrator is entitled to receive remuneration for services as SMCL administrator.\n(2) The remuneration must be fixed by reference to the time properly given by the SMCL administrator and the SMCL administrator’s staff in attending to matters arising in the SMCL administration.\n(3) The SMCL administrator must make an application to court for the remuneration to be fixed by the court.\n(4) The SMCL administrator must deliver at least 14 days’ notice of the SMCL administrator’s application to the following, who may appear or be represented—\n(a) the Secretary of State;\n(b) GEMA; and\n(c) the creditors of the SMCL.\n(5) In fixing the remuneration, the court must have regard to the following matters—\n(a) the complexity (or otherwise) of the case;\n(b) any respects in which, in connection with the SMCL’s affairs, there falls on the SMCL administrator any responsibility of an exceptional kind or degree;\n(c) the effectiveness with which the SMCL administrator appears to be carrying out, or to have carried out, the SMCL administrator’s duties as such; and\n(d) the value and nature of the property with which the SMCL administrator has to deal.\n(6) Where there are joint SMCL administrators, it is for them to agree between themselves how the remuneration payable should be apportioned; and any dispute arising between them may be referred to the court for settlement by order.\n(7) If the SMCL administrator is a solicitor and employs the SMCL administrator’s own firm, or any partner in it, to act on behalf of the SMCL, profit costs must not be paid unless this is authorised by the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/629/article/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:12.067094+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."
}