Regulation 8 Determination of scheme customers by the Secretary of State

(1)

The Secretary of State may in any scheme year give a notice (a “rebate notice”) to a scheme electricity supplier specifying persons to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with regulation 9.

(2)

The Secretary of State may give a scheme electricity supplier more than one rebate notice in a scheme year.

(3)

In scheme year 15, a rebate notice may not be given after 1st March 2026.

(4)

A rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017^f1) may only be given if—

(a)

the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates;

(b)

regulations are in force under section 142 of the Pensions Act 2008^f2 and those regulations authorise the Secretary of State to provide the supplier with the personal information contained in the notice; or

(c)

the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017^f3 to provide the electricity supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.

(5)

The Secretary of State may not specify a person (“P”) in a rebate notice unless it appears to the Secretary of State that—

(a)

P is a Scotland domestic customer of the scheme electricity supplier;

(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

(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, is in receipt of guarantee credit.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2017 c. 30.
f2: 2008 c. 30.
f3: Section 36 was amended by S.I. 2018/912.