{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Low-carbon heat target",
  "text": "(1) A scheme participant has a low-carbon heat target for each scheme year for which it is a scheme participant, expressed as a number of units and calculated in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) A scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target for a scheme year is the number of units which is equal to the sum of—\n(a) 8% of the number of gas boilers in excess of 19,999 of which the scheme participant is the supplier and which are the subject of a qualifying sale during the scheme year; and\n(b) 8% of the number of oil boilers in excess of 999 of which the scheme participant is the supplier and which are the subject of a qualifying sale during the scheme year.\n(3) A scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target—\n(a) may be adjusted up or down in accordance with regulation 29 (correction of the registry); and\n(b) for a scheme year other than the 2025 scheme year, may be increased in accordance with regulation 27 (carry forward of part of low-carbon heat target).\n(4) The administrator must record a scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target in the registry.\n(5) Where a scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target, calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) and, where applicable, paragraph (3), is not a whole number, the target is to be rounded to the nearest whole number, rounding down any fraction of less than one half and rounding up any other fraction.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1208), regs. 2(2), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1208), regs. 2(2), 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/81/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:18.707617+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}