12 Information with respect to levels of performance.E+W+S
The following section shall be inserted in the M1Gas Act 1986, after section 33B—
“33C Information with respect to levels of performance.
(1)The Director shall from time to time collect information with respect to—
(a)the compensation made by public gas suppliers under section 33A above;
(b)the levels of overall performance achieved by public gas suppliers in connection with the provision of gas supply services; and
(c)the levels of performance achieved by public gas suppliers in connection with the promotion of the efficient use of gas by consumers.
(2)At such times as the Director may direct, each public gas supplier shall give the following information to the Director—
(a)as respects each standard prescribed by regulations under section 33A above, the number of cases in which compensation was made and the aggregate amount or value of that compensation; and
(b)as respects each standard determined under section 15B or 33B above, such information with respect to the level of performance achieved by the supplier as may be so specified.
(3)A public gas supplier who without reasonable excuse fails to do anything required of him by subsection (2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(4)The Director shall, at least once in every year, arrange for the publication, in such form and in such manner as he considers appropriate, of such of the information collected by or given to him under this section as appears to him expedient to give to customers, or potential customers, of public gas suppliers.
(5)In arranging for the publication of any such information, the Director shall have regard to the need for excluding, so far as practicable—
(a)any matter which relates to the affairs of an individual, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Director, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that individual; and
(b)any matter which relates specifically to the affairs of a particular body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Director, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that body.”