Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 3 June 2013.
Amendments made: 119, page 91, line 30, leave out from beginning to end of line 35 and insert—
‘by making provision of any of the kinds specified in subsection (3).
(3) The kinds of provision mentioned in subsection (1) are—’
120, page 91, line 36, after ‘(a)’ insert ‘provision’.
121, page 91, line 38, leave out
‘for specifying a limit on’
and insert ‘provision for restricting’.
122, page 92, line 1, leave out ‘about discretionary terms (and’ and insert
‘provision about discretionary terms (which’.
123, page 92, line 4, after ‘(d)’ insert ‘provision’.
124, page 92, line 5, leave out ‘including’ and insert ‘which may include’.
125, page 92, line 11, leave out paragraph (e) and insert—
‘(e) provision for requiring a licence holder to change the domestic tariff on which it supplies gas or electricity to a domestic customer who is on a closed tariff by—
(i) switching to a different domestic tariff for the time being offered by the licence holder, unless the customer objects, or
(ii) offering the customer, or inviting the customer to switch to, a different domestic tariff for the time being offered by the licence holder.’.
126, page 92, line 17, at end insert—
‘( ) Any limit imposed by virtue of subsection (3)(b) on the number of tariffs, or tariffs of any category, that a licence holder may adopt must be greater than the number of standard domestic tariffs, or (as the case may be) standard domestic tariffs of that category, that the licence holder is required to adopt.’.
127, page 92, line 38, at end insert—
‘( ) may make provision for determining when a licence holder is, or is not, to be regarded as offering to supply gas or electricity on a particular tariff (or as offering other terms in connection with domestic supply contracts) for the purpose of a relevant provision;
( ) may make provision for supplies (or proposed supplies) of gas or electricity to be regarded as being on the same tariff or different tariffs for the purpose of a relevant provision;’.
128, page 93, line 17, at end insert—
‘“closed tariff” means a domestic tariff on which a licence holder—
(a) supplies gas or electricity to customers under existing domestic supply contracts, but
(b) no longer offers to supply gas or electricity to customers who are not already on the tariff;’.
129, page 93, line 25, leave out from ‘tariff”’ to end of line 26 and insert
‘means the set of principal terms of a domestic supply contract (or proposed domestic supply contract);’.
130, page 93, line 41, leave out from ‘period’ to end of line 42 and insert
‘to be determined by the licence holder, but
(b) may not include any term setting the amount of a charge or rate or otherwise specifying how it is to be determined.’.
131, page 93, line 45, leave out ‘and’ and insert—
‘( ) a domestic customer is on a particular domestic tariff if gas or electricity is supplied to the customer on that tariff, and’.
132, page 93, line 47, at end insert
‘(and references to adopting a tariff include references to doing either or both of them).’.
133, page 94, line 1, leave out from second ‘of’ to end of line 3 and insert
‘domestic supply contracts which are the principal terms of such contracts.’.—(Michael Fallon.)
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