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Amendment of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988

6.  After paragraph (5) of that regulation there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(5A) For the purposes of paragraph (5), any declaration under paragraph (1) made before 1 January 1995 in respect of a low voltage supply shall have effect as if—

(a)the declared voltage, unless otherwise agreed between the supplier and the consumer, was 230 volts between the phase and neutral conductors at the supply terminals; and

(b)the permitted variation of that value, unless otherwise agreed between the supplier and the consumer, was a variation not exceeding ten per cent above or six per cent below that declared voltage at the declared frequency.