The Energy Supply Company Administration Rules 2013

Power of Secretary of State to regulate certain matters

146.—(1) The Secretary of State may, subject to the 1986 Act and the 2004 Act, make regulations with respect to any matter provided for in these Rules as relates to the carrying out of the functions of an energy administrator of an energy supply company including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, with respect to the following matters arising in an energy supply company administration—

(a) the preparation and keeping of books, accounts and other records, and their production to such persons as may be authorised or required to inspect them;

(b) the auditing of an energy administrator’s accounts;

(c) the manner in which an energy administrator is to act in relation to the energy supply company’s books, papers and other records, and the manner of their disposal by the energy administrator and others;

(d) the supply by the energy administrator to creditors and members of the energy supply company of copies of documents relating to the energy supply company administration and the affairs of the energy supply company (on payment, in such cases as may be specified by the regulations, of the specified fee).

(2) Regulations made pursuant to paragraph (1) may—

(a) confer discretion on the court;

(b) make non-compliance with any of the regulations a criminal offence;

(c) make different provision for different cases, including different provision for different areas; and

(d) contain such incidental, supplemental and transitional provisions as may appear to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient.