The Electricity (Applications for Licences, Modifications of an Area and Extensions and Restrictions of Licences) (No. 2) Regulations 2004

4.  If the application is for a restriction of a licence provide—

(a) an estimate of the total number of premises to which the applicant supplies electricity at the time of the application and which the applicant would cease to supply if the application were acceded to (“relevant premises”); and

(b) unless there are, at the date of the application, no relevant consumers (within the meaning set out in sub-paragraph (c) below) in relation to the applicant, a description of the applicant’s proposed arrangements under standard condition 22A (Restriction or Revocation: Securing Continuity of Supply) for—

(i) ensuring continuity of supply for all such relevant consumers; and

(ii) in the case of each such consumer who is supplied with electricity in pursuance of a contract (which does not include any contract which, by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Act, is deemed to have been made), securing such continuity on the same terms as nearly as may be as the terms of the contract.

(c) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b), a person is a relevant consumer if—

(i) immediately before the restriction takes effect, he is being supplied with electricity by the holder of the licence; and

(ii) his premises are to be excluded from the licence by the restriction.

(1)

In this Part of this Schedule, if the application is for an extension or restriction of a licence, information and documents need only be given in so far as, in any material respect, they differ from or add to the most recent information or documents which were provided in relation to the same requirement—

(i)

with an application made by the applicant in accordance with these Regulations; or

(ii)

subsequent to such an application in pursuance of a condition of the applicant’s licence.