{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348235173",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Obligation to incur spending and amounts of spending",
  "text": "(1) In each scheme year, a compulsory scheme electricity supplier must incur spending under this Part to the amount of its non-core spending obligation.\n(2) In doing so, the supplier—\n(a) must include spending under Chapter 3 (industry initiatives), subject to the requirements and limits in paragraphs (3) to (5);\n(b) may include spending under Chapter 4 (activities specified by the Secretary of State).\n(3) Where the aggregate non-core spending obligation for the scheme year exceeds £10 million, the amount of spending on financial assistance under regulation 21 which a supplier counts towards its non-core spending obligation—\n(a) must be no less than the obligation percentage of £5 million, but\n(b) must not, in total, exceed the obligation percentage of £10 million.\n(4) Where the aggregate non-core spending obligation for the scheme year exceeds £6 million, the amount of spending on debt write-off under regulation 21 which a supplier counts towards its non-core spending obligation—\n(a) must not exceed the obligation percentage of £3 million in respect of customers who are supplied with neither electricity or gas through a pre-payment meter;\n(b) must not, in total, exceed the obligation percentage of £6 million.\n(5) Where the aggregate non-core spending obligation for the scheme year exceeds £8 million, the amount of spending on the installation of boilers or central heating systems under regulation 21 which a supplier counts towards its non-core spending obligation must not in total exceed the obligation percentage of £8 million.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“financial assistance” means the activity listed in the final entry in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 2;\n“obligation percentage”, in relation to a supplier, means the percentage determined in accordance with paragraph (3) of regulation 17.\n(7) This regulation is subject to regulations 23 and 24.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348235173/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:35.010159+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."
}