The Energy Bill Relief Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Introductory

    1. CHAPTER 1 Preliminary

      1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

      2. 2.Interpretation

    2. CHAPTER 2 Energy Bill Relief Scheme

      1. 3.Establishment of the scheme

      2. 4.Application of the scheme

      3. 5.Making of rules

    3. CHAPTER 3 Basic terms of the scheme

      1. 6.Scheme period

      2. 7.Fixed price cut-off date

      3. 8.Government supported price, maximum discount and minimum supply price

  3. PART 2 Discounted supply price

    1. CHAPTER 1 Determination of prices

      1. 9.Supply price

      2. 10.Reference wholesale price – fixed price, variable price and DAI price contracts

      3. 11.Reference wholesale price – flexible price contracts

    2. CHAPTER 2 Categorisation of supply contracts

      1. 12.Categories of supply contracts

      2. 13.Treatment of fixed price contracts at end of term

      3. 14.Duty of supplier to categorise contracts

      4. 15.Times by which determinations are to be made and notices given

      5. 16.Methodology for contract categorisation

    3. CHAPTER 3 Discounting supply price under supply contracts

      1. 17.Calculation of base discount

      2. 18.Calculation of discount

      3. 19.Duty of suppliers to provide the discount

      4. 20.Consequences of change in contract categorisation

    4. CHAPTER 4 Rules as to matters in this Part

      1. 21.Rules as to matters in this Part

  4. PART 3 Discount recovery

    1. CHAPTER 1 Entitlements in respect of discount recovery

      1. 22.Entitlements in respect of discount recovery

      2. 23.Determination of amounts subject to discount recovery

      3. 24.Payment of amounts in respect of discount recovery

      4. 25.Assignment of rights in respect of payment

      5. 26.Absolute right of Secretary of State to recover

    2. CHAPTER 2 Withholding of payments in respect of discount recovery

      1. 27.Rights of Secretary of State to withhold payment

      2. 28.Release of amounts withheld

    3. CHAPTER 3 Reconciliation run-off

      1. 29.Reconciliation run-off

    4. CHAPTER 4 Procedure for discount recovery

      1. 30.Submission of a valid discount recovery claim

      2. 31.Invalid, erroneous or absent discount recovery claims

      3. 32.Reporting details of Part 4 arrangements

      4. 33.Discount recovery rules

      5. 34.Claim windows for discount recovery

      6. 35.Delegation of functions related to discount discovery

  5. PART 4 Adjustment of discount or supply quantity in certain cases

    1. CHAPTER 1 Arrangements in respect of customer’s financial exposure to wholesale price

      1. 36.Interpretation of this Chapter

      2. 37.Application of this Chapter

      3. 38.Customer declaration where this Chapter applies

      4. 39.Adjustment of discount

      5. 40.Rules in relation to this Chapter

    2. CHAPTER 2 Arrangements for customer to deliver electricity to the grid

      1. 41.Interpretation of this Chapter

      2. 42.Application of this Chapter

      3. 43.Customer declaration where this Chapter applies.

      4. 44.Determination of ineligible quantity

      5. 45.Rules in relation to this Chapter

    3. CHAPTER 3 Abuse of scheme

      1. 46.Interpretation of this Chapter

      2. 47.Application of this Chapter and declaration of abusive arrangement

      3. 48.Reduction of discount

      4. 49.Rules in relation to this Chapter

    4. CHAPTER 4 Arrangements for customer to make available energy (etc) to end users outside Northern Ireland

      1. 50.Interpretation of this Chapter

      2. 51.Application of this Chapter

      3. 52.Customer declaration where this Chapter applies

      4. 53.Determination of non-qualifying quantity

      5. 54.Rules in relation to this Chapter

  6. PART 5 Qualifying financially disadvantaged customers

    1. 55.Interpretation of this Chapter

    2. 56.Qualifying financially disadvantaged customers

    3. 57.Rules in relation to this Part

    4. 58.Reduction in qualifying amounts payable by qualifying financially disadvantaged customers

    5. 59.Terms of supply to qualifying financially disadvantaged customers

  7. PART 6 Further provisions

    1. CHAPTER 1 Duties of suppliers in connection with the scheme

      1. 60.Increases in charges and other changes in relation to supply contracts

    2. CHAPTER 2 Deemed terms of supply contracts

      1. 61.Deemed terms of supply contracts

    3. CHAPTER 3 Reporting, information requests and audit

      1. 62.Regular reporting by suppliers

      2. 63.Information requests

      3. 64.Audit

      4. 65.Purposes for which powers under this Chapter may be exercised

      5. 66.Application of data protection legislation

    4. CHAPTER 4 Certain determinations made under the Regulations

      1. 67.Interpretation of this Chapter

      2. 68.Referrals in respect of disagreement between contract parties

      3. 69.Power of the Secretary of State to make determinations

      4. 70.Review of decisions of the Secretary of State

      5. 71.Rules in relation to this Chapter

    5. CHAPTER 5 Enforcement

      1. 72.Supplier obligations enforceable as relevant requirements

      2. 73.Civil penalties for customers

    6. CHAPTER 6 Notices

      1. 74.Notices

  8. Signature

  9. Explanatory Note