{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348279085",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Eligibility statement",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must publish an eligibility statement for each scheme year.\n(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 or in a fuel poverty risk group.\n(3) An eligibility statement—\n(a) may be for one or more scheme years;\n(b) must state which scheme year or years it is for.\n(4) The Secretary of State may amend an eligibility statement for—\n(a) a scheme year, or\n(b) where a statement is for more than one scheme year, any or all of those scheme years.\n(5) The Secretary of State must publish the amended eligibility statement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “living in fuel poverty”, see section 15(2)(a) of the Energy Act 2010."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “fuel poverty risk group”, see section 15(5) of the 2010 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348279085/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:55.199278+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."
}