{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-amendment-order-2014/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-amendment-order-2014/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111109229",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-amendment-order-2014",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transfers of excess actions",
  "text": "After article 21 (excess actions), insert—\n“Transfers of excess actions\n21A. (1) Where—\n(a) a supplier (“C”) has achieved an excess action (“E”); and\n(b) the Administrator has approved an application made in respect of E under article 21(9),\nE may be regarded as achieved by another supplier (“D”) (“a transfer”) if that transfer is approved by the Administrator in accordance with this article.\n(2) C and D must—\n(a) apply for approval in writing to the Administrator by 30th April 2015;\n(b) provide to the Administrator such information, including the number and type of excess actions intended to be transferred, as the Administrator may reasonably require; and\n(c) indicate whether D intends E to be credited towards D’s—\n(i) total carbon emissions reduction obligation;\n(ii) total carbon saving community obligation; or\n(iii) total home heating cost reduction obligation.\n(3) The Administrator must approve a transfer—\n(a) in a case where D has indicated that it intends E to be credited towards a different obligation from the one notified under article 21(2)(b), if the Administrator is satisfied that E meets any applicable requirement in article 21(4)(d) or (5)(d) in respect of that different obligation; and\n(b) unless it has reasonable grounds to believe that, if the transfer were approved, C would not be able to achieve its—\n(i) total carbon emissions reduction obligation;\n(ii) total carbon saving community obligation; or\n(iii) total home heating cost reduction obligation.\n(4) If the Administrator decides not to approve a transfer under paragraph (3) it must notify C and D of the reasons for that decision.\n(5) If a transfer is approved, E is treated as achieved by D and not C.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111109229/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:13:57.308234+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."
}