# The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022, Regulation 22: Eligibility criteria and verification measures


(1) A compulsory scheme electricity supplier must notify the Authority of—
(a) the eligibility criteria which the supplier proposes to apply in selecting broader group customers; and
(b) the measures (“verification measures”) which it proposes to take 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;
(b) more than one notification in respect of a scheme year.
(3) The Authority must approve a supplier’s notification of eligibility criteria if, but only if, it is satisfied that—
(a) the eligibility criteria include all the descriptions of persons in Part 1 of Schedule 2;
(b) any description of persons included in the eligibility criteria and not included in Part 1 of Schedule 2 will wholly or mainly be persons in fuel poverty or in a fuel poverty risk group; and
(c) the eligibility criteria are such as to ensure that customers meeting the criteria will wholly or mainly be persons who are not former core group customers of the supplier.
(4) In paragraph (3)(c), “former core group customer” has the same meaning as in regulation 7(5).
(5) The Authority must approve a supplier’s notification of verification measures if, but only if, it is satisfied that—
(a) the verification measures include all the measures specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2; or
(b) 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/2022/9780348236835/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-22
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