The Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made: 9th March 1995

Coming into force: 1st April 1995

The Director General of Electricity Supply, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 39 and 60 of the Electricity Act 1989[^f00001], after consultation with public electricity suppliers and with persons and bodies representative of persons likely to be affected by the exercise of the powers, after considering the results of research to discover the views of a representative sample of persons likely to be affected, and with the consent of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (as respects England and Wales) and the Secretary of State for Scotland (as respects Scotland) in accordance with section 39(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity (Standards of Performance) (Amendment) Regulations 1995, and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Amendment of the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 1993

2

Schedules 2 to 4 to the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 1993[^f00002] (“the Principal Regulations”) are revoked and substituted by Schedules 2 to 4 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

3

Schedules 6 to 14 to the Principal Regulations are revoked and substituted by Schedules 6 to 14 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1 — SUBSTITUTION OF SCHEDULES 2 TO 4 OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

SCHEDULE 2 — SUBSTITUTION OF SCHEDULES 6 TO 14 OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Signed

S. C. Littlechild, — The Director General of Electricity Supply — 8th March 1995

We consent

Richard Page, — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy, — Department of Trade and Industry — 8th March 1995

George Kynoch, — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 9th March 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 1993 (“the Principal Regulations”) by substituting new Schedules 2 to 4 and 6 to 14. The new Schedules contain the following changes:

• Schedules 8 and 9 contain a revised period in respect of the matter referred to in regulation 5(2)(a) of the Principal Regulations;

• Schedule 8 contains a revised period in respect of the matter referred to in regulation 5(2)(b) of the Principal Regulations;

• Schedules 2 to 4 and 6 to 14 contain a revised period in respect of the matter referred to in regulation 9(4)(b) of the Principal Regulations; and

• Schedules 3, 4 and 6 to 14 contain revised periods in respect of the matters referred to in regulations 10(2)(a) and 10(2)(b) of the Principal Regulations.

Schedules 1 and 5 to the Principal Regulations have not been amended.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1989 c. 29; section 39 was amended by section 20(1) of the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1993/1193.