{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-regulations-2011/regulation-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-regulations-2011/regulation-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111512753",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Heat Incentive Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Overpayment notices and offsetting",
  "text": "(1) Where the Authority is satisfied that a participant has received a periodic support payment which exceeds that participant’s entitlement or has received a periodic support payment whilst failing to comply with an ongoing obligation it may—\n(a) require the participant to repay the periodic support payment as a civil debt owed to the Authority; or\n(b) offset the periodic support payment against any future periodic support payments.\n(2) Within 21 days of a decision to offset or require the participant to repay any periodic support payment the Authority must send the participant a notice specifying—\n(a) the periodic support payment which the Authority believes has been overpaid and the sum which it is seeking to recover from the participant;\n(b) whether the sum specified in sub-paragraph (a) will be recovered in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b);\n(c) where applicable, a date by which the sum specified in sub-paragraph (a) must be repaid;\n(d) the consequences of failing to make any repayments requested including potential sanctions or civil action; and\n(e) details of the participant’s right of review including any relevant time limits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111512753/regulation/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:53:15.672683+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."
}