{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Determination of scheme customers by the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, in each scheme year and subject to the provisions of this regulation—\n(a) specify in a notice (a “standard rebate notice”) persons to whom a scheme electricity supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with regulation 11, and\n(b) give the notice to the supplier.\n(2) A person (“P”) must be specified in a notice for a scheme electricity supplier if it appears to the Secretary of State that—\n(a) P is an E&W domestic customer of the supplier,\n(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\n(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 meets the criteria described in the eligibility statement for the scheme year.\n(3) The Secretary of State may give a scheme electricity supplier more than one standard rebate notice in a scheme year.\n(4) A standard rebate notice may not be given—\n(a) before the eligibility statement for the scheme year in which the notice is to be given is published (see regulation 10);\n(b) in scheme year 20, after 1st March 2031.\n(5) A standard rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may only be given if—\n(a) the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates,\n(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\n(c) the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to provide the supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2017 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 36 was amended by S.I. 2018/912."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348279085/regulation/9",
    "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."
}