Valid from 01/10/2001
[F141A Adjustment of charges to help disadvantaged groups of customers.E+W+S
(1)If the Secretary of State considers that members of any group (a “disadvantaged group”) of customers of authorised suppliers are treated less favourably than other customers of theirs as respects charges for gas, he may make an order containing a scheme for the adjustment of charges for gas with a view to eliminating or reducing the less favourable treatment.
(2)The scheme may include—
(a)provision for the adjustment of charges by authorised shippers or authorised transporters (as well as by suppliers); and
(b)in relation to charges payable to suppliers, provision for the adjustment of charges payable by customers who are not members of the disadvantaged group (as well as by persons who are).
(3)The scheme shall—
(a)describe the disadvantaged group;
(b)specify the persons whose charges are covered by the scheme; and
(c)set out the basis of the adjustment of the charges.
(4)If the scheme does not relate to the whole of Great Britain, it shall specify the area or areas to which it relates.
(5)The scheme may—
(a)require authorised suppliers, authorised shippers or authorised transporters to supply information of any specified description, in any specified form, to any other such persons; and
(b)provide for the modification of conditions of licences,
for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of the scheme.
(6)An order shall not be made under this section unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 41A, 41B and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 27, s. 98; S.I. 2001/3266, arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)