{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348266047",
  "legislation_title": "The Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-clean-heat-market-mechanism-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Carry forward of part of low-carbon heat target",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a scheme participant which has fewer certificates than it requires in order to meet its low-carbon heat target for a scheme year other than the 2028 scheme year, referred to in this regulation as the “carry forward scheme year”.\n(2) A scheme participant to which this regulation applies may carry forward some or all of the part of its low-carbon heat target which it is unable to meet, subject to the following provisions of this regulation.\n(3) For each carry forward scheme year, the amount of a scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target which may be carried forward may not exceed the greater of—\n(a) 35% of the number of units in the scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target for the carry forward scheme year;\n(b) 300, in the case of a scheme participant which was the supplier of 20,000 or more gas boilers which were the subject of a qualifying sale during the carry forward scheme year; or\n(c) 50, in the case of a scheme participant which does not fall within sub-paragraph (b) but which was the supplier of 1,000 or more oil boilers which were the subject of a qualifying sale during the carry forward scheme year.\n(4) A scheme participant to which this regulation applies which does not wish to carry forward part of its low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation must notify the administrator of that wish no later than 1st October following the end of the carry forward scheme year.\n(5) Where a scheme participant to which this regulation applies does not make a notification in accordance with paragraph (4), the administrator must record in the registry the carry forward of part of the participant’s low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation.\n(6) The number of units in a part of a low-carbon heat target which is carried forward in accordance with this regulation is added to the scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target for the subsequent scheme year.\n(7) The number of units in a part of a low-carbon heat target which is carried forward from a scheme year in accordance with this regulation—\n(a) must be met by the scheme participant in accordance with regulation 25(1) for the subsequent scheme year; and\n(b) is not taken into account when calculating the number of units which may be carried forward from that subsequent scheme year in accordance with paragraph (3)(a).\n(8) Paragraph (9) applies where—\n(a) a scheme participant carries forward part of its low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation; and\n(b) that scheme participant is not a scheme participant for the scheme year which follows the carry forward scheme year.\n(9) Where this paragraph applies, the undertaking or group of undertakings which was a scheme participant for the carry forward scheme year—\n(a) must, for the scheme year following the carry forward scheme year, meet the part of its low-carbon heat target which it carried forward; and\n(b) is treated as a scheme participant for the scheme year following the carry forward scheme year for that purpose, in addition, where applicable, to being a near-threshold supplier or a certificate holder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348266047/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:11.262722+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."
}