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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022/article-50",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348236606",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022",
  "path": "article/50",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "ECO4 projects: minimum requirement for energy efficiency improvement",
  "text": "(1) An ECO4 project meets the minimum requirement for energy efficiency improvement in this article if it meets—\n(a) condition A;\n(b) where the participant’s exempted project allowance is not exhausted, condition B; or\n(c) condition C.\n(2) Condition A is met if the Administrator is satisfied, in relation to the domestic premises, that—\n(a) if the pre-project SAP band is band D or E, the post-project SAP band is band A, B or C;\n(b) if the pre-project SAP band is band F or G, the post-project SAP band is band A, B, C or D.\n(3) Condition B is met if—\n(a) the pre-project SAP band for the domestic premises is band E, F or G; and\n(b) the Administrator is satisfied that—\n(i) the ECO4 project could not meet condition A because—\n(aa) to do so would require the installation of one or more measures which attract an exemption under Part 11; or\n(bb) there is no combination of ECO4 eligible measures that would have enabled the project to meet condition A; and\n(ii) as compared to the measures in the ECO4 project, no other combination of ECO4 eligible measures, excluding those attracting an exemption under Part 11, would have resulted in a larger increase in the SAP rating for the premises.\n(4) Condition C is met if, in the case of domestic premises that have a pre-project SAP band of E, F or G, the Administrator is satisfied that neither condition A nor condition B could be met because there has been a change in the people who are occupying the premises.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a participant’s exempted project allowance is not exhausted if X is less than the participant’s exempted project allowance, where “X” is the number of ECO4 projects promoted by the participant—\n(a) which meet condition B in paragraph (3); and\n(b) for which the Administrator has given a positive score under article 47(1)(b) before the ECO4 project in question.\n(6) In this article, “post-project SAP band” has the meaning given in article 51.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
}