Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

L.N. 103 of 2012

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 20 and 39 of the

Enemalta Act, Enemalta, with the approval of the Minister for

Finance, the Economy and Investment, and with the approval of the

Malta Resources Authority and the Minister for Resources and Rural

Affairs has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Electricity Supply

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Electricity Supply Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a)

immediately after the definition "Office", there shall

be added the following new definition

" "primary residence" means the dwelling house in

which an individual habitually resides as his sole or

principal place of abode, whether in Malta or elsewhere, as

may be established by documentary evidence

Provided that such a dwelling house shall not be

considered as primary residence if the property is also

predominantly used for commercial or manufacturing

purposes or for any form of trade or profession;"; and

(b) immediately after the definition "reading", there

shall be added the following new definition

" "secondary residence" means any immovable

property used solely for residential purposes, other than

that residence which serves as an individual’s primary

residence;".

Regulation 36 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) sub-regulation (6) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new sub-regulation

"(6) For the purposes of these regulations, a

consumer shall be entitled to submit an application

requesting the Chairman to register individuals having

their primary residence in Malta on a Residential Premises

Service in relation to such primary residence

Provided that no one individual shall be registered

on more than one Residential Premises Service at the same

time and that no individual shall be registered on a garage

or on the common parts of a condominium."; and

(b) immediately after sub-regulation (7) thereof, there

shall be added the following new sub-regulation

"(8) The following provisions shall apply with

respect to the registration of persons on a Domestic

Premises Service or on a Residential Premises Service

(a)

a consumer shall furnish in writing to

Enemalta, within such time as may be stipulated by

Enemalta, any information together with any

supporting documents which may be required for

the purpose of such registration;

(b)

a consumer shall notify Enemalta in

writing of any change in the circumstances, on the

basis of which such registration is made, not later

than one month from when such change occurs;

(c)

any change in the number of persons

registered on a Domestic Premises Service or on a

Residential Premises Service shall be taken into

account, for the purpose of such registration, from

the date of the first normal meter reading following

the date on which the change in the number of

persons occurs or the date on which Enemalta is

notified in writing of such a change, at the

discretion of Enemalta;

(d)

a person residing in a tenement may

apply to Enemalta so that he shall be registered on

a tenement as a Domestic Premises Service other

than that in which he resides;

(e)

any application shall be made in such

form as may be issued by Enemalta from time to

time;

(f)

every arrangement made in terms of

this sub-regulation shall be valid until the 31st

December of the year in which it was made or for

which it was renewed, and it shall be deemed to

have been renewed for the next following year,

unless the consumer, not later than the last day of

November of the year in which the arrangement is

in force, gives notice in writing to Enemalta that he

does not want the said arrangement to be so

renewed.".

The First Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

for the first paragraph of item 4 thereof, there shall

be substituted the following

"Without prejudice to the other provisions of these

regulations, a Residential Premises Service, which is

provided to the primary residence of an individual, shall be

eligible for an Eco Reduction of the amount due for

consumption of electricity for the billing period in

question, which shall be calculated in accordance with the

following rates, on a pro rata basis of the relative annual

cumulative consumption:"; and

(b) for the first proviso to item 4 thereof, there shall be

substituted the following

"Provided that no one individual shall be registered

on more than one Service at the same time and that the Eco

Reduction shall only apply to the primary residence of an

individual registered under regulation 36(6):".

Item 5 of the Third Schedule to the principal regulations

shall be deleted.

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