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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008/article-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110805306",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Determining carbon emissions reduction obligations",
  "text": "(1) The Authority must determine a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation.\n(2) The Authority must refer to the matters in article 7 when determining the obligation.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the obligation period is the three-year period—\n(a) commencing on 1st April 2008, except for a new supplier; and\n(b) ending on 31st March 2011.\n(4) For a new supplier who satisfies article 4(1) for the first time on—\n(a) 31st December 2008, the obligation period is the two-year period commencing 1st April 2009;\n(b) 31st December 2009, the obligation period is for one year commencing 1st April 2010.\n(5) The Authority must notify a supplier of that supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation by 28th February prior to the commencement of the obligation period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110805306/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:14.806530+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."
}