Terms and conditions for business
Terms and conditions for business - British Gas
Terms and conditions for business - British Gas
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Email us with any questions: eservice@britishgas<strong>business</strong>.co.uk2.0 Charges2.0 Charges(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)agree that if you are apartnership, we may claim anymoney you owe us under thiscontract from you, any of yourpartners or all of you;confirm that the gas orelectricity (or both) at any siteis used totally or mainly <strong>for</strong>non-domestic purposes;confirm that your previoussupplier has no reason to objectto you transferring your supplyto us, <strong>and</strong> you agree that youwill pay any charges you oweyour previous supplier that aretransferred to us (<strong>for</strong> example,transportation or distributioncharges <strong>for</strong> supply of gas orelectricity (or both) to your site),together with any of our<strong>and</strong> your last supplier’sadministration charges;agree that you will not takean alternative supply of gas orelectricity (or both) from anyother supplier at any supplypoint at any site while that siteis covered by an active pricingperiod under this contract; <strong>and</strong>you will give us the evidencewe reasonably ask <strong>for</strong> to allowus to check your identity as ourcustomer. This could includeyour passport or driving licence,other utility bills or your tenancyagreement <strong>for</strong> the site.Clauses 1.6 (f) <strong>and</strong> (g) do notapply to a deemed site.1.7 You agree to tell us immediatelyif, at any time during thiscontract, you either become orstop being a micro-<strong>business</strong>.We will not end this contractwith you as a result of you being,becoming or no longer beinga micro-<strong>business</strong>. However, wemay still end this contract if anyof the circumstances describedin clause 10.7(a) apply to you.You are a micro-<strong>business</strong> if:(a) you have asked us to supply youwith electricity <strong>and</strong> you do notuse more than 55,000 kWh ofelectricity a year; or(b) you have asked us to supplyyou with gas <strong>and</strong> you do not usemore than 200,000 kWh of gasa year; or(c) you have fewer than 10employees (or their full-timeequivalent) <strong>and</strong> your yearlyturnover or yearly balance sheettotal is not more than €2 million.2.1 You agree to pay us <strong>for</strong> supplyinggas or electricity (or both) <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong>other charges which apply underthis contract (such as thosedescribed in clause 2.5).2.2 Unless this clause or clause 12says something different, ourprices <strong>for</strong> supplying each siteare set out in the contractdetails <strong>for</strong> that site. We base ourcharges on the amount of gas orelectricity we supply, worked outin kilowatt hours. Our prices mayalso include a st<strong>and</strong>ing charge.We will tell you the amount ofst<strong>and</strong>ing charge which appliesto your site. The st<strong>and</strong>ingcharge will be set out in yourcontract details.2.3 We will work out our charges <strong>for</strong>any deemed site based on ourdeemed prices until we agree toa new price arrangement <strong>for</strong> thatsite or a different supplier takesover supply to that site. Chargesbased on our deemed pricesmay be higher than the chargesunder a price arrangement. Wewill change the deemed pricesfrom time to time.You can see our currentdeemed prices at:britishgas.co.uk/<strong>business</strong>/products-<strong>and</strong>-services/deemed-rates.htmlYou can contact us to discuss aprice arrangement <strong>for</strong> that site.2.4 This contract will continue toapply to the site if you <strong>and</strong>we have agreed a pricearrangement <strong>for</strong> any site <strong>and</strong>:(a)(b)the price arrangement <strong>for</strong> thatsite has ended; orif we have ended the pricearrangement <strong>for</strong> that site in linewith clauses 4.2, 10.7(b) or 12.3(c).The charges we will apply inthose circumstances will bebased on our out-of-contractrates <strong>for</strong> as long as there is noprice arrangement in placeor until a different suppliertakes over supply to that site.Charges based on our out-ofcontractrates may be higherthan the charges under a pricearrangement.You can see our currentout-of-contract rates at:britishgas.co.uk/<strong>business</strong>/products-<strong>and</strong>-services/deemed-rates.html2.5 We may also charge you <strong>for</strong>extra items that are not set outin your contract details. Thesemay include:(a) our reasonable costs of tryingto get back money you owe usor if you break any of the terms<strong>and</strong> <strong>conditions</strong> of this contract,including administration <strong>and</strong>third-party costs (<strong>for</strong> example,our cost of sending an agentto your site in connection withany money you owe us) or ourreasonable costs where anattempted payment fails;(b) our reasonable costs of stopping,disconnecting or reconnectingyour supply;67