Public Utilities Act
(CHAPTER 261, Sections 73(3) and 130)
Public Utilities (Apportionment of Payment) Regulations
Rg 14
G.N. No. S 71/1997

REVISED EDITION 1998
(15th June 1998)
[1st March 1997]
Citation
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Utilities (Apportionment of Payment) Regulations.
Definitions
2.  In these Regulations —
“licensee” means a utilities support services licensee;
“supplier” means the Board, a public electricity supplier or a public gas licensee, as the case may be.
Apportionment of payment by utilities support services licensee
3.—(1)  Where a utilities support services licensee receives any payment from a consumer and the consumer has not, in making the payment, indicated to the licensee which charges the payment is to be made, the licensee shall use the payment to pay the charges owed to all the suppliers in full.
(2)  Where the payment referred to in paragraph (1) is insufficient to meet the charges owed to all the suppliers in full, the licensee shall apportion the payment to pay the charges in the proportion in which each charge bears to the total charges of all the suppliers.
[G.N. No. S 71/97]
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