{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-levy-general-regulations-2001/regulation-51B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-levy-general-regulations-2001/regulation-51B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/838",
  "legislation_title": "The Climate Change Levy (General) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-levy-general-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/51B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51B",
  "heading": "Certification of electricity produced in a combined heat and power station",
  "text": "(1) The relevant Authority must certify QPO electricity in accordance with this Part and Schedule 2.\n(2) The relevant Authority must only certify on the basis of the most accurate figures for electricity produced in an individual station that the station’s operator makes known to the Authority.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The station’s operator must only make known figures for the purposes of paragraph (2) that are made in accordance with the metering requirements of the CHPQA.\n(6) The relevant Authority must only certify for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) on the basis that—\n(a) each quantity of electricity produced by an individual station is referable to the Annual Operation in which it is produced, and\n(b) every such quantity in a given Annual Operation comprises the same relative proportions of QPO electricity and non-QPO electricity.\nThis requirement is subject to the other provisions of this Part and Schedule 2 (non-certification, restricting validity to indirect supplies, reconciliation).\n“Annual Operation” has the same meaning as in regulations 2(3), 3(2), 4 and 6(1) of the Climate Change Levy (Combined Heat and Power Stations) Regulations 2005 (namely, 1st January to 31st December).\n(7) The relevant Authority must not certify any electricity produced in a station when no exemption certificate is in force for that station.\n(8) Where the relevant Authority certifies under paragraph (1), it must issue a levy exemption certificate (“CHP LEC”) as respects that electricity.\nThe relevant Authority must both certify QPO electricity in accordance with paragraphs (1), (2), ... (6) and (7) and issue the relevant CHP LEC no later than the end of the third month following the end of the month in which the electricity is produced.\nWhilst the relative proportions mentioned in paragraph (6)(b) are unknown, the relevant Authority must use a reasonable estimate of what those relative proportions will be.\nIf the relevant Authority must investigate further whether the electricity in question is “QPO electricity”, it must certify the QPO electricity and issue the relevant CHP LEC no later than the end of the month following the month in which that investigation ought reasonably to have been concluded.\n(9) A CHP LEC must be regarded for all purposes of this Part and Schedule 2 as only relating to the actual electricity in relation to which it was issued.\n(10) Each CHP LEC must carry a unique identifying reference.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4A inserted (1.4.2003) by The Climate Change Levy (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/604), regs. 1, 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 51B(1) substituted (22.7.2005) by The Climate Change Levy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1716), regs. 1(1), 7(3) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 51B(3)(4) omitted (1.11.2007 with effect in accordance with the Notes in Sch. 1 to the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Climate Change Levy (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2903), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Table Item 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51B(5) substituted (22.7.2005) by The Climate Change Levy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1716), regs. 1(1), 7(4) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 51B(6) substituted (22.7.2005) by The Climate Change Levy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1716), regs. 1(1), 7(5) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51B(8) added (22.7.2005) by The Climate Change Levy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1716), regs. 1(1), 7(6) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 51B(8) omitted (1.11.2007 with effect in accordance with the Notes in Sch. 1 to the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Climate Change Levy (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2903), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Table Item 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
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