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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-55",
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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/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Payment as alternative to complying with order under Article 52",
  "text": "(1) An order under Article 52 may provide that instead of producing evidence under Article 52(2), a designated electricity supplier may discharge (in whole or in part) his renewables obligation (or his obligation in relation to a particular period) by making a payment to the Authority.\n(2) The order may make provision—\n(a) as to the sum which for the purposes of paragraph (1) is to correspond to the supply of a given amount of electricity;\n(b) for different such sums in relation to different periods;\n(c) for different such sums in relation to electricity generated in different ways specified in the order (such as those referred to in Article 53(1)(b) and (c)); and\n(d) for any such sum to be adjusted from time to time for inflation by a method specified in the order (which may refer to a specified scale or index or to other specified data of any description, including such a scale or index or such data in a form not current when the order was made, but in a subsequent form attributable to revision or any other cause and taking effect afterwards).\n(3) The Authority shall pay the amounts received to electricity suppliers in accordance with a system of allocation specified in the order.\n(4) The system of allocation specified in the order may provide for payments to specified categories of electricity supplier only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110443470/article/55",
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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."
}