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Section 44D: Time limit for determinations

Electricity Act 1989 · 1989 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

An order determining a section 44B dispute (whether made under section 44C or made under or by virtue of any other provision of this Act) shall be made within the permitted period.

Subject to subsection (3) ..., the permitted period is the period of two months beginning with the day on which the dispute is referred to the Authority.

Where the person determining the dispute requests further information from anyone for the purposes of determining the dispute, the person may, by giving notice to the parties, extend the permitted period—

by two months, or
with the agreement of the complainant, by a longer period.

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If a person refers a dispute to the Authority, or purports to do so, and the Authority gives to that person a notice—

specifying information which it requires in order to assess whether the dispute is a section 44B dispute, or whether there is a dispute at all, and
requesting the person to provide that information,

the dispute shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (2) as not referred to the Authority until the information is provided.

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