Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Amendment of the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

3.  In regulation 2—

(a) after the definition of “domestic customer” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““margins of error” means the prescribed margins of error or the agreed margins of error as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the Order;”;

(b) for the definitions of “prescribed period” and “prescribed sum” there shall be substituted respectively the following definitions—

• ““prescribed period” means, in a paragraph or sub-paragraph of a regulation, the period in column 2 of Part I of the Schedule opposite the reference to that paragraph or sub-paragraph of the regulation in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule;

• “prescribed sum” means, in a paragraph or sub-paragraph of a regulation, where the customer is a domestic customer, the amount in column 3 of Part I of the Schedule, or where the customer is a non-domestic customer, the amount in column 4 of Part I of the Schedule in either case opposite the reference to that paragraph or sub-paragraph of the regulation in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule;”;

(c) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a) where more than one person is a customer in respect of particular premises, a notice given by a supplier to one person who is a customer in respect of those premises shall be a sufficient notice to any other person who is a customer in respect of those premises at the time the notice is given;”.