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Cancellation nor with any question as to whether such Supply Meter Point Confirmation Cancellation is well founded.

8.16 For the purposes of this paragraph 8:

(a) "Aggregate SMP Daily Limit" is the number of Supply Meter Point Confirmations;

(b) "Applicable SMP Daily Limit" is the Aggregate SMP Daily Limit, or such lesser number of Supply Meter Point Confirmations in relation to a particular category of Supply Meter Points;

(c) "SMP Validation Time" is the time on a Business Day identified as such in the prevailing ‘SMP Confirmation Statement’.

8.17 The Operator shall prepare and publish the SMP Confirmation Statement specifying the Aggregate SMP Daily Limit, any Applicable SMP Daily Limit and the SMP Validation Time.

8.18 The SMP Confirmation Statement may be revised from time to time by the Operator, subject to:

(a) the Authority giving its written consent to the revision; and

(b) the Operator giving Users not less than twenty (20) Business Days written notice of the coming into effect of the revised statement."

9 Registration: Existing Supply Meter Points not already withdrawn

9.1 Where, at the time a User submits a Supply Meter Point Confirmation which is not rejected by the Operator, there is any Existing Supply Meter Point in respect of which a Supply Meter Point Withdrawal has not been submitted:

(a) the Operator will, within 2 Business Days after the Supply Meter Point Confirmation was submitted, notify the Existing Registered User of the submission of the Supply Meter Point Confirmation and the Proposed Supply Meter Point Registration Date, and also the identity of the Proposing User; and

(b) the Operator will, within 2 Business Days after the Supply Meter Point Confirmation was submitted, notify the Proposing User of the identity of the Existing Registered User; and

(c) the Existing Registered User may, up to but not after the 7th Business Day after the Supply Meter Point Confirmation Date (the "Objection Deadline"), submit to the Operator an objection ("Supply Meter Point Objection") in respect of such Existing Supply Meter Point.

9.2 No Supply Meter Point Objection may be submitted, nor (if purportedly submitted) shall be

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effective:

(a) by an Existing Registered User, after the Objection Deadline;

(b) (for the avoidance of doubt) in respect of an Existing Supply Meter Point in respect of which the Existing Registered User has submitted a Supply Meter Point Withdrawal; or

(c) unless it identifies the basis for the objection, being a basis for objection identified in the Supply Meter Point Objection Code.

9.3 Where an Existing Registered User submits a Supply Meter Point Objection to the Operator, the Operator will notify such objection to the Proposing User within 2 days after such objection

9.4 The Operator will not be concerned with the basis for any Supply Meter Point Objection nor with any question as to whether such an objection is well founded.

9.5 A User may withdraw a Supply Meter Point Objection up to but not after the Objection Deadline.

9.6 Where a Supply Meter Point Objection is made and is not withdrawn in accordance with paragraph 9.5, the Supply Meter Point Confirmation shall lapse and be of no effect, and the Operator will so inform the Existing Registered User.

9.7 Where no Supply Meter Point Objection is made, or a (if any) Supply Point Objection made is withdrawn:

(a) the Supply Meter Point Confirmation shall be effective and the Supply Meter Point shall be registered in the name of the Proposing User with effect from the Proposed Supply Meter Point Registration Date; and

(b) the Existing Registered User shall be deemed to have submitted a Supply Meter Point Withdrawal in accordance with paragraph 10 in respect of the relevant Existing Supply Meter Point.

9.8 In the case of a Supply Meter Point Confirmation within paragraph 9.1, the Operator will notify the Proposing User, after the Objection Deadline and not later than the second Day before the Proposed Supply Meter Point Registration Date, whether the Supply Meter Point Confirmation has become effective, setting out the details of the Supply Meter Point to be recorded in the Supply Meter Point Register.

9.9 The "Supply Meter Point Objection Code" is the document of that name jointly prepared and maintained, and revised from time to time, by Users and approved by the Authority, identifying the basis on which a User may submit a Supply Meter Point Objection to the Operator in accordance with this paragraph 9.

9.10 The “Supply Meter Point Confirmation Date” is the date on which the SMP Confirmation is

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