Notification by suppliers of domestic customers and energy supplied
6.—(1) A person who is a supplier at the end of a notification period must notify the Administrator by the notification date for that period of—
(a)the number of that supplier’s domestic customers at the end of that period;
(b)the amount of electricity or gas supplied to its domestic customers in that period.
(2) Where a supplier fails to do so or where the Administrator considers that a notification is inaccurate, the Administrator may determine for the purposes of paragraph (1) the number of domestic customers of a supplier or the amount of electricity or gas supplied.
(3) Where a supplier (“S”) is a group company at the end of a notification period, S must also notify the Administrator by the notification date for that period of the name of each other supplier in the group, its company registration number and the amount of electricity or gas supplied by the group in that period.
(4) In paragraph (3), “each other supplier in the group” means each supplier which makes the type of supply in respect of which S is a supplier.
(5) Where under paragraph (3) a supplier is a member of a group with another supplier, the amount of electricity or, as applicable, gas supplied by the group in the relevant notification period is the amount supplied by those suppliers whether or not a supplier was a member of the group throughout that notification period.
(6) Where a supplier fails to provide the information in paragraph (3), or the Administrator considers any of the information notified by the supplier under that paragraph is inaccurate, the Administrator may for the purposes of that paragraph determine the matters to which that information relates.
(7) Anything determined by the Administrator under paragraph (2) or (6) is to be treated as if it were notified by the supplier.
(8) In this article, “notification date” means, in relation to the notification period for—
(a)phase 1, 1st February 2015;
(b)phase 2, 1st February 2016.