The Energy Bills Discount Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023 No. 454

SCHEDULE 1 N.I. Modification of Schedule 4 of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 for the purposes of regulation 78(1)

5.  In paragraph 14— N.I.

(a) for sub-paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) The authorised person may serve a notice imposing a monetary penalty (“a non-compliance penalty”) on a person who does not comply with—

(a) a notice under paragraph 1C, or

(b) the duty under regulation 17(4) of the EBDS NI Regulations.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (2) omit the words “or enforcement undertaking”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (2), for the words from “be a percentage” to the end substitute “not exceed £5,000 in respect of each non-compliance identified in a compliance notice and not exceed £5,000 in respect of failure to comply with a notice given under paragraph 1C”;

(d) omit sub-paragraphs (3) and (5);

(e) after sub-paragraph (7), insert—

“(8) A non-compliance penalty is recoverable by the authorised person as a civil debt.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 26.4.2023, see reg. 1(1)