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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2012/article-20",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525456",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2012",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Transfers",
  "text": "(1) A qualifying action achieved by a supplier (“A”) may be regarded as achieved by another supplier (“B”) (“a transfer”) if that transfer is approved by the Administrator.\n(2) A and B must—\n(a) apply for approval in writing to the Administrator by 31st March 2015;\n(b) provide to the Administrator such information, including the number and type of qualifying actions intended to be transferred, as the Administrator may reasonably require; and\n(c) indicate whether B intends the qualifying action to be credited towards B’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 unless it has reasonable grounds to believe that, if the transfer were approved, A would not be able to achieve its—\n(a) total carbon emissions reduction obligation;\n(b) total carbon saving community obligation; or\n(c) total home heating cost reduction obligation.\n(4) If the Administrator decides not to approve a transfer under paragraph (3) it must notify A and B of the reasons for that decision.\n(5) If a transfer is approved, the qualifying action is treated as achieved by B and not A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525456/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:35.077411+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."
}