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Regulation 5A Suppliers no longer participating in the schemeF1

(1)

This regulation applies to a licensed electricity supplier in any scheme year if—

(a)

the supplier is not a scheme electricity supplier in relation to the scheme year; and

(b)

the supplier was a scheme electricity supplier in relation to the preceding scheme year.

(2)

A licensed electricity supplier to which this regulation applies must—

(a)

place a statement on its website that the supplier is not participating in the Warm Home Discount scheme; and

(b)

notify its former core group customers in writing that the supplier is not participating in the Warm Home Discount scheme.

(3)

The statement referred to in paragraph (2)(a) must—

(a)

be placed in a prominent and publicly accessible location on the licensed electricity supplier’s website on or before the relevant date; and

(b)

remain in a prominent and publicly accessible location on the licensed electricity supplier’s website during the remainder of the scheme year.

(4)

The notification referred to in paragraph (2)(b) must, so far as is reasonably practicable, be made on or before the relevant date.

(5)

In this regulation—

  • “former core group customer” means, in relation to a supplier, a person who—

    1. (a)

      is a domestic customer of the supplier; and

    2. (b)

      was a core group customer of the supplier in the preceding scheme year;

  • “relevant date” means the date falling one month after the date on which the scheme year starts.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 5A inserted (15.8.2018) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/909), regs. 1, 7