# The Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022, Regulation 8: Determination of scheme customers by the Secretary of State


(1) The Secretary of State may in any scheme year give a notice (a “rebate notice”) to a scheme electricity supplier specifying persons to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with regulation 10.
(2) The Secretary of State may give a scheme electricity supplier more than one rebate notice in a scheme year.
(3) A rebate notice may not be given—
(a) before the eligibility statement for the scheme year in which the notice is to be given is published (see regulation 9);
(b) in scheme year 15, after 1st March 2026.
(4) A rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may only be given if—
(a) the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates,
(b) regulations are in force under section 142 of the Pensions Act 2008 and those regulations authorise the Secretary of State to provide the supplier with the personal information contained in the notice, or
(c) the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to provide the electricity supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.
(5) The Secretary of State may not specify a person (“P”) in a rebate notice unless it appears to the Secretary of State that—
(a) P is an E&W domestic customer of the scheme electricity supplier,
(b) the premises at which P is supplied, or is treated as supplied, with electricity (“the qualifying premises”) are occupied by P as their sole or main residence, and
(c) P, or, where both P and P’s partner occupy the qualifying premises as their sole or main residence, P or P’s partner—
(i) is in receipt of guarantee credit, or
(ii) meets the criteria described in the relevant eligibility statement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348235173/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2022/regulation-8
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