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

Distributed payments

7.—(1) When a supplier receives a distributed payment for onward transmission to the supplier’s customer, the supplier must relay the distributed payment to that customer within 10 working days of receipt of the distributed payment.

(2) In this regulation—

“customer” means any person who is supplied or requires to be supplied with gas conveyed through pipes or with electricity at premises which that person owns or occupies; and

“distributed payment” means a payment to be made by—

(a)

a gas transporter to a customer—

(i)

in fulfilment of an obligation imposed on it by regulations made under section 33AA(1) of the Gas Act; or

(ii)

following a determination by the Authority under section 33AB of the Gas Act; or

(b)

an electricity distributor to a customer—

(i)

in fulfilment of an obligation imposed on it by regulations made under section 39A(2) of the Electricity Act; or

(ii)

following a determination by the Authority under section 39B of the Electricity Act.

(1)

Section 33AA was inserted by section 90(2) of the Utilities Act 2000.

(2)

Section 39A was inserted by section 54(2) of the Utilities Act 2000.