Regulation 12 Late rebate notices

(1)

This regulation applies if, during a scheme year (“the relevant scheme year”), the Secretary of State is satisfied that—

(a)

the criteria in regulation 9(2)(a) to (c) were met in respect of a person (“P”) in the preceding scheme year, but

(b)

P did not receive the prescribed rebate for that scheme year because of an administrative error by a scheme electricity supplier, the Secretary of State or the Authority.

(2)

The Secretary of State must, on or before the specified date and subject to paragraph (3), give a notice (a “late rebate notice”) to the relevant scheme electricity supplier specifying P as a person to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with paragraph (4).

(3)

A late rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may only be given if the condition in regulation 9(5)(a) or (c) is met.

(4)

A scheme electricity supplier who is given a late rebate notice in respect of P must, if it is the relevant scheme electricity supplier in respect of P, provide the prescribed rebate to P—

(a)

using a method listed in regulation 11(3)(a) to (e), and

(b)

before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which it receives the late rebate notice.

(5)

The date on which the prescribed rebate is provided to P is the date on which the relevant scheme electricity supplier complies with paragraph (4).

(6)

If the prescribed rebate is provided after the end of the relevant scheme year, it is to be treated as being provided in the relevant scheme year.

(7)

The scheme electricity supplier who provides the prescribed rebate to P in accordance with this regulation must—

(a)

specify on P’s bill, or

(b)

otherwise notify P in writing,

that P has been given a rebate under the Scheme.

(8)

In this regulation—

(a)

references to the “preceding scheme year” include a reference, in relation to scheme year 16, to scheme year 15;

(b)

a scheme electricity supplier is the “relevant scheme electricity supplier” in respect of P for the relevant scheme year if, during the preceding scheme year, the supplier informed the Secretary of State that P was an E&W domestic customer of the supplier in that scheme year;

(c)

the “specified date” is—

(i)

where paragraph (1) applies on or before the last day of February in the relevant scheme year, 31st March of that year;

(ii)

otherwise, 30th April following the end of the relevant scheme year.

(9)

Paragraph (4) is subject to regulation 13.