ApplicationE+W+S
3.—(1) Regulation 4 applies where an electricity distributor has received a request from a customer for the provision of a budget estimate on or after 1st October 2010.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4)—
(a)regulations 5 to 9 and 11 and 12 apply where an electricity distributor has received notice pursuant to section 16A(1) of the Act from a customer who requires or may require a connection (whether metered or unmetered) to be made by the electricity distributor pursuant to section 16(1) of the Act; and
(b)regulation 10 applies where an electricity distributor has been notified by a relevant authority of a fault repair that needs to be carried out in respect of an unmetered connection.
(3) The regulations referred to in paragraph (2)(a) apply whether or not the connection that was contemplated by the customer is subsequently made.
(4) The regulations referred to in paragraph (2) do not apply to connections (or, as the case may be, fault repairs) in any of the following circumstances—
(a)in respect of regulations 5 to 7 and 10 and 11, where the notice given under section 16A(1) of the Act requesting terms for a connection (or, as the case may be, the notification by the relevant authority of the need for a fault repair) was received by the electricity distributor before 1st October 2010; and
(b)in respect of regulations 8, 9 and 12, where the electricity distributor has sent an offer of terms to the customer in respect of the connection before 1st October 2010.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)