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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348236835",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2011 Regulations” means the Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011;\n“aggregate non-core spending obligation” is to be read in accordance with regulation 14;\n“broader group customer” has the meaning given in regulation 21;\n“broader group rebate target” has the meaning given in regulation 20;\n“central heating system” means a system—\n(a) which provides heat for the purposes of space heating through a boiler or other heat source connected to one or more separate heat emitters; and\n(b) where the heat source and heat emitters are all situated in the same domestic premises or building;\n“the commencement day” means the day on which these Regulations come into force;\n“compulsory scheme electricity supplier”, other than in regulation 16(6)(a), has the meaning given in regulation 6(2);\n“core group customer” has the meaning given in regulation 9(2);\n“debt write-off” means the provision of assistance to reduce debts for electricity or gas supply to domestic premises by cancelling or reducing the debts;\n“electricity supply licence” means a licence granted under section 6(1)(d) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n“energy advice” means advice on reducing or preventing the wastage of energy in domestic premises;\n“gas supply licence” means a licence granted under section 7A(1) of the Gas Act 1986;\n“GB domestic customer” has the meaning given in regulation 2(2);\n“group of companies” means a holding company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, where “holding company” and “wholly-owned subsidiary” have the meanings given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;\n“guarantee credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;\n“industry initiative” has the meaning given in regulation 24(1);\n“non-core spending obligation” is to be read, other than in regulation 17(2)(b), in accordance with regulation 16;\n“obligation percentage”, in relation to a compulsory scheme electricity supplier and a scheme year, means the percentage determined in accordance with paragraph (3) of regulation 16;\n“prescribed rebate”, other than in regulation 17, means a rebate of £150;\n“rebate notice” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1);\n“the Scheme” has the meaning given in regulation 4;\n“scheme electricity supplier” means—\n(a) a compulsory scheme electricity supplier; or\n(b) a voluntary scheme electricity supplier;\n“scheme gas supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 6(8);\n“scheme year”, other than in the expression “scheme year 11”, means—\n(a) the period beginning with the commencement day and ending with 31st March 2023 (“scheme year 12”); or\n(b) a period of 12 months beginning with 1st April in any of the years from 2023 to 2025 (and “scheme year” followed by a number from 13 to 15 means the scheme year beginning in 2023, 2024 or 2025 respectively);\n“scheme year 11” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the 2011 Regulations;\n“Scotland domestic customer” has the meaning given in regulation 2(3);\n“smart meter advice” means advice on the benefits of using a smart meter in domestic premises;\n“voluntary scheme electricity supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 6(6);\n“working day” means a day other than—\n(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or\n(b) a day which is a bank holiday under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in Scotland.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a licensed supplier is connected to another licensed supplier if they both belong to the same group of companies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/1033, as amended by S.I. 2014/695, 2015/652, 2016/806, 2018/909, 2019/1458 and 2021/667."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. Section 6 was substituted by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27), and subsection (1)(d) of that section was amended by S.I. 2012/2400."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 c. 44. Section 7A was inserted by section 6 of the Gas Act 1995 (c. 45). The functions of the Director General of Gas Supply under subsection (1) of that section were transferred to the Authority by section 3 of the Utilities Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2006 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2002 c. 16. Section 2 was amended by paragraphs 140 and 141 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "See the definition of “licensed supplier” in section 15(5) of the Energy Act 2010."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348236835/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:14.277667+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."
}