Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Act 2022

Regulations

8. (1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, make regulations for the purposes of this Act, including regulations for prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed, for the purpose of enabling any provision of this Act to have full effect or for the purpose of the efficient operation of the Scheme.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister shall make regulations under this section providing for—

(a) the date for the purposes of section 4 (1)(a),

(b) the date for the purposes of section 4 (1)(e),

(c) the period for the purposes of section 4 (1)(f), and

(d) the period for the purposes of section 5 (2).

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations under this section providing for—

(a) functions of the distribution system operator for the purposes of the efficient operation and administration of the Scheme,

(b) functions of electricity suppliers for the purposes of the efficient operation and administration of the Scheme, and

(c) such administrative and operational matters as the Minister considers appropriate for the purposes of the efficient operation and administration of the Scheme.

(4) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental or supplementary provisions that appear to the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, to be expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(5) Every regulation made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.