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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022/article-84",
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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/84",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Declaration verification service",
  "text": "(1) The Administrator must—\n(a) provide a means by which a relevant authority may provide it with information about a declaration they have made under any one of articles 17 to 19 or 21(1);\n(b) maintain a record of that information; and\n(c) following a request by a participant which is accompanied by a copy of a declaration purporting to be made by a relevant authority under any one of articles 17 to 19 or 21(1) (“the purported declaration”)—\n(i) determine whether the purported declaration matches any declaration about which a record is maintained by the Administrator under sub-paragraph (b); and\n(ii) inform the participant of the outcome of that determination.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply to a request made on or after 1st July 2026.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348236606/article/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:17.688479+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."
}