PART 6Payments
CHAPTER 4Payment and non-payment
The non-payment register47.
(1)
The Settlement Body must maintain a register (“the non-payment register”) which is to include in respect of a payer (“P”) who has not paid an invoice by F1the end of the payment due date—
(a)
the name of P;
(b)
whether P is an electricity supplier or a capacity provider;
(c)
the type of invoice in respect of which P is in default;
(d)
the payment due date;
(e)
the date or dates when any payment has been made by P in respect of the invoice, and whether it is a full or partial payment; and
(f)
whether P has given a disputes notice to the Settlement Body in respect of the invoice;
(g)
if P has given a disputes notice in respect of the invoice, whether the dispute has been determined under Chapter 2 of Part 10 and, if so, that determination.
(2)
The matters included on the non-payment register under paragraph (1) are a “relevant register entry” in relation to P.
(3)
The Settlement Body must—
(a)
make a relevant register entry as soon as possible after P is in default; and
(b)
update the relevant register entry if a payment is subsequently made, or a dispute is raised or determined.
(4)
The Settlement Body must remove a relevant register entry—
(a)
if it is determined under Chapter 2 of Part 10 that the payment is not due, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Settlement Body makes that determination;
(b)
in any other case, 12 months after the date on which P became in default.
(5)
The Settlement Body must publish the information contained in the non-payment register on a website.
(6)
The Settlement Body must retain the data contained in a relevant register entry for 5 years after the relevant register entry is made.
F2(7)
In this regulation, “payer” means a person to whom an invoice is issued under these Regulations or the Supplier Payment Regulations.