PART 1SHeat networks licences

MiscellaneousS

[F116BCollecting informationS

(1)To enable the licensing authority to comply with the duty in section 16A(2), the licensing authority may, by notice given to a person supplying thermal energy by means of a heat network, require that person to provide in the form and manner specified in the notice—

(a)documents specified or described in the notice that are in that person’s custody or under that person’s control; and

(b)information specified or described in the notice that relates to matters the licensing authority is under a duty to monitor.

(2)The notice must specify the time and place at which the person must give the documents or information to the licensing authority.

(3)The requirements of this section may be enforced as if—

(a)they were relevant requirements as defined in paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 18 to the Energy Act 2023;

(b)the person to whom the notice under subsection (1) is given were a person holding a heat network authorisation within paragraph 13 of Schedule 18 to that Act;

(c)the licensing authority were the Regulator as defined in section 217 of that Act; and

(d)the modifications in relation to offences in section 12A(2) of this Act also applied for the purpose of this subsection.]

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