{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-for-difference-allocation-regulations-2014/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2011",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracts for Difference (Allocation) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-for-difference-allocation-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Contract budget notices",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must by notice (“a contract budget notice”) specify—\n(a) the contract budget which is available for each delivery year applicable to an allocation round; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The Secretary of State may in a contract budget notice specify any of the following—\n(a) budgets which are reserved for the descriptions of applications specified in the notice (“minima”);\n(b) maximum budgets which apply to the descriptions of applications specified in the notice (“maxima”);\n(c) a division of the contract budget such that a different part (“pot”) of the contract budget applies to the description of applications specified in the pot notice.\n(3) Where maxima or minima are specified, they may be expressed as—\n(a) a sum of money;\n(b) an amount of capacity of electricity generation; or\n(c) a combination of (a) and (b).\n(4) Where—\n(a) the contract budget is expressed as a sum of money; and\n(b) that sum is stated by reference to a price which is not current at the date of the contract budget notice,\nthe contract budget notice must include a factor which, when applied to that sum, converts that sum into a price which is current at that date.\n(4A) Where any budget referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (2) (that is to say, the contract budget, a minimum, a maximum or a pot) is expressed as an amount of capacity of electricity generation, the Secretary of State may specify in the contract budget notice that a soft constraint applies to that amount; and in such a case, the amount of capacity of electricity generation may be exceeded, but only in accordance with the provisions of the contract allocation framework that applies to that allocation round.\n(5) A contract budget notice must—\n(a) be given to the delivery body at such time as is set out in the contract allocation framework; and\n(b) identify the allocation round to which the contract budget notice applies; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11 substituted (13.6.2024) by The Contracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/710), regs. 1(1), 12(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11 substituted (13.6.2024) by The Contracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/710), regs. 1(1), 12(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 11 omitted (22.7.2025) by virtue of The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1)(b) omitted (22.7.2025) by virtue of The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2)(c) substituted (22.7.2025) by The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 11(4A) inserted (25.6.2021) by The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/758), regs. 1(1), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4A) substituted (22.7.2025) by The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4A) substituted (13.6.2024) by The Contracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/710), regs. 1(1), 12(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 11(5)(a) substituted (22.7.2025) by The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 11(5)(c) and word omitted (22.7.2025) by virtue of The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/903), regs. 1(2), 6(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 11 heading substituted (13.6.2024) by The Contracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/710), regs. 1(1), 12(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 1.8.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2011/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:59.561936+00:00"
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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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