The Electricity and Gas (Standards of Performance) (Suppliers) Regulations 2015

Amendment of the Gas (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2005

12.  The Gas (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 3 (interpretation)—

(i) for the definition of “relevant operator”(2) substitute—

““relevant operator” means the relevant gas transporter or the gas transporter according to the circumstances of the relevant customer’s case;”

(ii) omit the definitions of “appropriate meter”, “margins of error” and “specified time”;

(b) for the heading of Part 2 (Gas supplier’s and gas transporter’s individual standards of performance), substitute “Gas transporter’s individual standards of performance”;

(c) omit regulations 4, 5, 6, 12(1) and (3), 14, 15(1), (3) and (4) and 16;

(d) in regulation 13(4) (exemptions), for the words “regulation 6(1) or 10(1)(d)”, substitute “regulation 10(1)(d)”;

(e) for the heading of Schedule 1, Part 1 (Prescribed periods and prescribed sums applicable to all gas suppliers and gas transporters), substitute “Prescribed Periods and Prescribed Sums Applicable to all Gas Transporters”; and

(f) in Schedule 1, Part 1, omit the entries in the table in relation to regulations 4(2), (4)(a) and (4)(b), 5(3), 6(2) and (3) and 12(3).

(1)

S.I. 2005/1135, amended by S.I. 2008/696.

(2)

The definition of “relevant operator” was substituted by S.I. 2008/696.