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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111530276",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In relation to Scotland, householder means a person who is the owner or tenant of domestic premises.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) “owner” includes any person who under the Land Clauses Acts would be enabled to sell and convey land to promoters of an undertaking;\n(b) “tenant” includes a sub-tenant and a person who—\n(i) occupies a dwelling in terms of a contract of employment;\n(ii) has a licence to occupy a dwelling; or\n(iii) is a cottar within the meaning of section 12(5) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993,\nbut excludes a tenant of a social landlord within the meaning of section 165 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c.44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2010 asp 17."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111530276/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:08.170211+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."
}