Regulation 8 Administration of the Scheme

(1)

The Environment Agency is appointed as the administrator of the Scheme.

(2)

The administrator must operate a system (“the registry”) for the purposes of the Scheme, in particular to keep track of—

(a)

scheme participants, near-threshold suppliers and certificate holders;

(b)

scheme participants’ low-carbon heat targets;

(c)

the acquisition of certificates by scheme participants and certificate holders;

(d)

the transfer of certificates by scheme participants and certificate holders; and

(e)

the surrender or expiry of certificates.

(3)

The administrator must create an account in the registry for each scheme participant, near-threshold supplier and certificate holder.

(4)

The administrator is exempt from liability in damages for anything done or omitted in the exercise or purported exercise of functions conferred or imposed on the administrator by these Regulations.

(5)

Paragraph (4) does not apply—

(a)

if the act or omission is shown to have been in bad faith; or

(b)

so as to prevent an award of damages made in respect of an act or omission on the ground that the act or omission was unlawful as a result of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1998 c. 42.