# The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022, Regulation 26: Spending on industry initiatives which may be treated as incurred by a compulsory scheme electricity supplier


(1) This regulation applies where a compulsory scheme electricity supplier (“C”) is connected to one or more scheme gas suppliers on the qualifying date (referred to in this regulation as a “connected scheme gas supplier”).
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the qualifying date is 31st December preceding the start of the scheme year.
(3) If C is not connected to any other compulsory scheme electricity supplier on the qualifying date, C may treat any amount of spending incurred under regulation 24 by a connected scheme gas supplier in the relevant scheme year as an amount of spending incurred by C in that scheme year.
(4) If C is connected to one or more compulsory scheme electricity suppliers on the qualifying date (referred to in this regulation as a “connected compulsory scheme electricity supplier”), C may treat the specified percentage of any amount of spending incurred under regulation 24 by a connected scheme gas supplier in the relevant scheme year as an amount of spending incurred by C in that scheme year.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), the “specified percentage” is C’s number of GB domestic customers on the qualifying date as a percentage of the combined number of GB domestic customers of—
(a) C; and
(b) C’s connected compulsory scheme electricity suppliers,
on that date.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348236835/regulation/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-26
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