The Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made: 28th February 1994

Laid before Parliament: 7th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 29 and 60 of the Electricity Act 1989[^f00001], hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1994, and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Amendment of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988

2

The Electricity Supply Regulations 1988[^f00002] (“the Principal Regulations”) shall be amended as follows.

3

For regulation 34 of the Principal Regulations, save for the heading thereto, there shall be substituted the words in the Schedule hereto.

4

Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in Part I,

• (i) for paragraph 8(c), there shall be substituted the following:

(c) whether the earthing of the low voltage electricity supply system is by means of protective multiple earthing;

• (ii) paragraphs 4(a), 7(a), 8(d) and 8(f) shall be deleted;

• (b) in Part III, paragraph 4(a) shall be deleted; and

• (c) in Parts I, II, III and IV, for paragraph 3 in each case there shall be substituted the following:

(3) A unique and sequential reference number indicating, in respect of each year ending on 31st March, the number of the event.

Amendment of the Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1990

5

Paragraph 11 of the Schedule to the Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1990[^f00003] shall cease to have effect.

THE SCHEDULE

Signed

Tim Eggar — Minister for Energy. — 28th February 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Electricity Supply Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”), which require every supplier to give the Secretary of State notice in writing of certain events (including any event giving rise to a death, injury, fire or explosion), and additionally require notice of events giving rise to a death or serious injury to be given by telephone, telex or other immediate means of communication immediately the event becomes known to the supplier.

The 1988 Regulations are amended by these Regulations so as to require the notice to be given in the form of a computer disc in the case of most of the notifiable events. The computer disc must comply with the specifications contained in the publication entitled (under the heading “ELECTRICITY SUPPLY REGULATIONS 1988”) “COMPUTERISATION OF THE NOTIFICATION OF CERTAIN SPECIFIED EVENTS UNDER REGULATION 34”, subtitled “SPECIFICATION OF THE DATA FILES”, and published by the Department of Trade and Industry, 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE, in December 1993, a copy of which has been certified as such by the signature of the Minister for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry.

In addition, the Regulations retain the requirement to give notice by telephone or other immediate means of communication of any event giving rise to a death or serious injury immediately after the event becomes known to the supplier. Certain events must also be notified in writing by the quickest practicable means as soon as possible after the event becomes known to the supplier. (Both the latter two requirements, however, may be complied with by a single telex or facsimile transmission.)

The Regulations also reduce the amount of information required to be notified.

A compliance cost assessment has been prepared, a copy of which has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies of the compliance cost assessment and of the publication referred to above can be obtained free of charge by postal application to the Department of Trade and Industry Palace Street Library, Room 2.LG.4, 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1989 c. 29.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/1057 (by virtue of paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 17 to the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29), effective as if made under section 29 of that Act), as amended by S.I. 1990/390 and S.I. 1992/2961.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/390.