{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-60.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111111192",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Overpayment notices and offsetting",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may take one of the steps set out in paragraph (2) where the Authority is satisfied that a participant or former participant has received RHI payments (“overpayments”) which—\n(a) exceed the amount to which that person was entitled under these Regulations;\n(b) were paid whilst there was a failure by that person to comply with an ongoing obligation or following such a failure; or\n(c) were paid for an accredited domestic plant which was given accreditation wholly or partly as a result of the provision of information which was incorrect in a material particular.\n(2) The steps set out in this paragraph are—\n(a) requiring a participant or former participant who has received overpayments to repay a specified sum in relation to some or all of those overpayments; or\n(b) offsetting a specified sum in relation to some or all of those overpayments against future RHI payments.\n(3) Within 21 days of a decision to take action under paragraph (1) the Authority must send the participant or former participant who has received any overpayments a notice specifying—\n(a) the value of any RHI payments which the Authority believes are overpayments;\n(b) the specified sum which the Authority is seeking to recover;\n(c) whether the specified sum must be repaid or will be offset;\n(d) where applicable, the date by which the specified sum must be repaid; and\n(e) the participant’s or former participant’s right of review.\n(4) Where a participant or former participant who is required to repay a specified sum under this regulation fails to make payment in full by the date specified under paragraph (3)(d), the Authority may recover any outstanding sum as a civil debt.\n(5) The Authority must not require a participant or former participant to repay, or offset, a specified sum which exceeds any overpayments received by that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111111192/regulation/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:13:33.225689+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."
}