Section 94: Energy supply company administration orders
265.This section provides that a court may make an energy supply company administration order (esc administration order) in relation to an energy supply company. An energy supply company is defined in subsection (5) as a company that holds a licence from GEMA to supply gas or electricity.
266.Subsection (1) describes an esc administration order as an order made by the court in relation to an energy supply company, which directs that the affairs, business and property of the company are to be managed by a person appointed by the court, while the order is in force.
267.Subsections (2) and (3) explain that the person appointed by the court for the purposes of an esc administration order is known as the ‘energy administrator’, who must perform the duties of an energy administrator to achieve the objectives set out in section 95.
268.Subsection (4) provides that an energy supply company administration order applies only to those affairs and business of a non-GB company which are carried out in Great Britain and to its property in Great Britain.
