{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-54",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110443470",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/54",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Green certificates",
  "text": "(1) An order under Article 52 may provide for the Authority to issue from time to time, in accordance with such criteria (if any) as are specified in the order, a certificate to the operator of a generating station in Northern Ireland or to an electricity supplier.\n(2) A certificate under this Article is to certify—\n(a) that the generating station or, in the case of a certificate issued to an electricity supplier, a generating station in Northern Ireland specified in the certificate, has generated from renewable sources the amount of electricity stated in the certificate; and\n(b) that it has been supplied to customers in Northern Ireland.\n(3) If an electricity supplier produces a certificate to the Authority, it is to count for the purposes of Article 52(2) as sufficient evidence of the facts certified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110443470/article/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:40.073015+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."
}