{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-40",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525227",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-green-deal-framework-disclosure-acknowledgment-redress-etc-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Terms of the plan which are to bind or benefit the bill payer or a subsequent bill payer",
  "text": "(1) The terms of a green deal plan which bind a bill payer are—\n(a) a term which provides for the amounts of the green deal instalments and the intervals at which, and period for which, they are payable;\n(b) an early repayment term; and\n(c) subject to paragraph (2), any other term which the plan expressly states is to bind the bill payer.\n(2) A term in which the improver confirms to any person—\n(a) that any necessary permissions or consents have been obtained in respect of the improvements; or\n(b) any other matter relating to the improvements or the installation of the improvements,\ndoes not bind the bill payer or subsequent bill payer.\n(3) A term of a green deal plan which binds a person (“P”) as a bill payer (except an early repayment term)—\n(a) binds P only in respect of anything which is to be done or not to be done during the period for which P is the bill payer; and\n(b) may be enforced by the green deal provider against P but only to the extent that P is bound under sub-paragraph (a).\n(4) An early repayment term—\n(a) binds a person (“P”) as a bill payer from the time P becomes the bill payer until the end of the payment period; and\n(b) may be enforced by the green deal provider against P but only to the extent that P is bound under sub-paragraph (a).\n(5) A term of a green deal plan which confers a benefit on the improver (except a term under which money is to be advanced to the improver) also confers a benefit on a bill payer.\n(6) Where a term of a green deal plan confers a benefit on a bill payer,—\n(a) a person (“P”) who is the bill payer has the benefit of that term; and\n(b) P may enforce that term against the green deal provider,\nbut only whilst P is the bill payer.\n(7) In this regulation—\n(a) “early repayment term” means a term in a plan which complies with regulation 38;\n(b) a reference to a green deal provider includes—\n(i) in relation to a term which binds a person as a bill payer, a reference to a person to whom the green deal provider’s right to enforce that term has been assigned;\n(ii) in relation to a term which confers a benefit on a person as a bill payer, a reference to a person who, further to a novation of a green deal plan, has assumed the green deal provider’s obligation in respect of that term.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525227/regulation/40",
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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."
}