{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2006/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2006/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110739701",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2006",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Eligible renewable sources: qualifying arrangement",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—\n(a) a qualifying arrangement (“the applicable qualifying arrangement”) provided for the building of a generating station at a specified location (“the location”);\n(b) the applicable qualifying arrangement was terminated due to the operator of the generating station to which it applied having committed an unremedied breach of it; and\n(c) the last period in the tables contained in Schedule 1 to the Non-Fossil Fuel Order which relates to the applicable qualifying arrangement has not expired.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, a generating station—\n(a) which is situated at the location; and\n(b) to which the applicable qualifying arrangement applied at the time it was commissioned, or which is owned or operated by a person who was a party to the applicable qualifying arrangement (or who is a connected person or a linked person in relation to any such party),\nshall be an excluded generating station.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where an extant qualifying arrangement (“the applicable qualifying arrangement”) provides for the building of a generating station (“the specified station”) at a specified location (“the location”) and the specified station has not been commissioned.\n(4) Where this paragraph applies, a generating station—\n(a) which is situated at the location; and\n(b) which is owned or operated by a person who is a party to the applicable qualifying arrangement (or is a connected person or a linked person in relation to any such party),\nshall be an excluded generating station.\n(5) Paragraphs (2) and (4) shall not apply to a station which during the month in question, generates only electricity which is sold pursuant to another extant qualifying arrangement.\n(6) In paragraphs (2) and (4), in relation to a person who is a party to the applicable qualifying arrangement (“the first person”), another person (“the second person”) is a “linked person” where the second person has given or has arranged to give or has ensured or has arranged to ensure that the first person is given, a financial or other inducement relating to any right or interest in, or in respect of, the construction or operation of a generating station at the location.\n(7) The references in paragraph (6) to the first person and the second person shall include any person who is a connected person in relation to either of them.\n(8) For the purposes of this article, a generating station shall be regarded as being situated at a location provided for by an extant qualifying arrangement whether it is situated wholly or partly at that location.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110739701/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:31.847079+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."
}