The Disclosure of State Pension Credit Information (Warm Home Discount) Regulations 2011

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“couple” means—

(a)

a man and woman who are married to each other and are members of the same household;

(b)

a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife;

(c)

two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and are members of the same household; or

(d)

two people of the same sex who are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners,

and for the purposes of paragraph (d), two people of the same sex are to be regarded as living together as if they were civil partners if, but only if, they would be regarded as living together as husband and wife were they instead two people of the opposite sex;

“domestic customer” means an owner or occupier of domestic premises in Great Britain who is supplied with electricity at those premises wholly or mainly for domestic purposes;

“electricity supplier” means a person who holds a licence under section 6(1)(d) of the Electricity Act 1989(1);

“guarantee credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002(2);

“information direction” means a direction given by the Secretary of State to an electricity supplier under regulation 9(1) of the WHD Regulations requiring that supplier to provide information to the Secretary of State about its domestic customers;

“microgeneration” has the meaning given by section 26 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006(3);

“partner” means a member of a couple;

“priority services register”, in relation to an electricity supplier, means the register of the supplier’s domestic customers who are of pensionable age, disabled or chronically sick which the supplier is required to keep by condition 26 of the standard conditions of electricity supply licences(4) as at 1^st May 2011;

“qualifying customer” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 3;

“savings credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 3 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;

“scheme year” means a period of 12 months commencing on 1^st April in any of the years 2011 to 2014;

“the WHD Regulations” means the Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011(5).

(2) In these Regulations references to the Secretary of State, other than the reference in paragraph (1), include a person providing services to the Secretary of State.

(1)

1989 c.29. Section 6 was substituted by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000.

(2)

2002 c.16.

(3)

2006 c.19. Section 26 was amended by the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 (Sources of Energy and Technologies) Order 2008 (SI 2008/1767).

(4)

The standard conditions of electricity supply licences are available at http://epr.ofgem.gov.uk.

(5)

S.I. 2011/1033.