Part 3Regulation of gas and electricity markets
Adjustment of energy charges
29Adjustment of energy charges: interpretation
1
This section applies for the purposes of sections 26 to 28 and this section (the “charging adjustment provisions”).
2
In the charging adjustment provisions, references to customers do not include customers of a description excluded by an order made by the Secretary of State.
3
Expressions used in the charging adjustment provisions and in Part 1 of the Electricity Act 1989 have the same meaning in those provisions, so far as they relate to electricity, as the expressions have in Part 1 of the 1989 Act.
4
Expressions used in the charging adjustment provisions and in Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986 have the same meaning in those provisions, so far as they relate to gas, as the expressions have in Part 1 of the 1986 Act.
5
In the charging adjustment provisions—
“disadvantaged customers” has the meaning given in section 26(1);
“electricity customer”, in relation to an energy supplier, means a person who is a customer of the energy supplier only as respects electricity;
“electricity and gas customer”, in relation to an energy supplier, means a person who is a customer of the energy supplier as respects electricity and as respects gas;
“energy” means—
- a
electricity,
- b
gas, or
- c
electricity and gas;
- a
“energy supplier” means any of the following—
- a
a person that is an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Electricity Act 1989;
- b
a person that is an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Gas Act 1986;
- c
a person that is both—
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an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Electricity Act 1989, and
- ii
an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Gas Act 1986; or
- i
- d
two persons—
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one of which is an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Electricity Act 1989,
- ii
the other of which is an authorised supplier for the purposes of the Gas Act 1986, and
- iii
one, or each, of which is a group undertaking in relation to the other (“group undertaking” having the meaning given in section 1161 of the Companies Act 2006);
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- a
“gas customer”, in relation to an energy supplier, means a person who is a customer of the energy supplier only as respects gas;
“relevant person” means—
- a
in relation to electricity—
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an authorised distributor, and
- ii
a person authorised by a licence or exemption to participate in the transmission of electricity;
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- b
in relation to gas—
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an authorised transporter, and
- ii
a person authorised by a licence or exemption to arrange with any gas transporter for gas to be introduced into, conveyed by means of, or taken out of a pipe-line system operated by that transporter.
- i
- a