# The Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011, Regulation 19: Eligibility criteria and verification measures


(1) A compulsory scheme electricity supplier must determine, and notify to the Authority—
(a) eligibility criteria which the supplier proposes to apply in selecting broader group customers; and
(b) measures (“verification measures”) to be taken before providing the prescribed rebate to a broader group customer, for the purpose of verifying so far as reasonably practicable that the customer meets the supplier’s eligibility criteria.
(2) A supplier may make—
(a) a notification for the purposes of one or more scheme years; and
(b) more than one notification in respect of a scheme year.
(3) When the Authority receives a notification, it must decide whether to approve—
(a) the eligibility criteria; and
(b) the verification measures.
(4) The Authority must approve a supplier’s eligibility criteria if, but only if—
(a) they satisfy Condition 1; and
(b) in the case of eligibility criteria notified for the purposes of any of scheme years 2, 3 and 4, they also satisfy Condition 2.
(5) Condition 1 is that either—
(a) the eligibility criteria consist of—
(i) one or more of the descriptions of persons in Part 1 of Schedule 2; or
(ii) a description, or descriptions, of persons, all the members of which fall within one or more of the descriptions of persons in Part 1 of Schedule 2; or
(b) the Authority is satisfied that customers meeting the criteria will wholly or mainly be persons in fuel poverty, or in a fuel poverty risk group.
(6) Condition 2 is that the criteria are such as to ensure that in scheme years 2, 3 and 4, customers meeting the criteria will wholly or mainly be persons who were not core group customers in the previous scheme year.
(7) The Authority must approve a supplier’s proposed verification measures if, but only if—
(a) they include all the measures specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2; or
(b) the Authority is satisfied that the measures will be at least as effective as those specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 for the purpose of verifying so far as reasonably practicable that customers provided with the prescribed rebate under this Chapter meet the supplier’s eligibility criteria.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111507650/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-regulations-2011/regulation-19
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