Regulation 9 Eligibility statement

(1)

The Secretary of State must publish an eligibility statement for each scheme year.

(2)

An “eligibility statement” is a document which describes the criteria adopted by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing the prescribed rebate in a scheme year to persons living in fuel poverty^f1 or in a fuel poverty risk group^f2.

(3)

An eligibility statement—

(a)

may be for one or more scheme years;

(b)

must state which scheme year or years it is for.

(4)

The Secretary of State may amend an eligibility statement for—

(a)

a scheme year, or

(b)

where a statement is for more than one scheme year, any or all of those scheme years.

(5)

The Secretary of State must publish the amended eligibility statement.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 15(2)(a) of the Energy Act 2010 for the meaning of “living in fuel poverty”.
f2: See section 15(5) of the 2010 Act for the meaning of “fuel poverty risk group”.