Regulation 11 Late rebate notices
This regulation applies if, during a scheme year (the “relevant scheme year”), the Secretary of State is satisfied that—
a person (“P”) was eligible for a core group rebate in the preceding scheme year; but
P did not receive the core group rebate for the preceding scheme year because of an administrative error by a scheme electricity supplier, the Secretary of State or the Authority.
The Secretary of State must, on or before the specified date and subject to paragraph (3), give a notice (a “late rebate notice”) to the relevant scheme electricity supplier specifying P as a person to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with paragraph (4).
A late rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may be given only if—
the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates; or
the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to provide the electricity supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.
A scheme electricity supplier who is given a late rebate notice specifying P must, if it is the relevant scheme electricity supplier in respect of P, provide the prescribed rebate to P using a method specified in regulation 10(3)(a) to (e) before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which it receives the late rebate notice.
The date on which the prescribed rebate is provided to P is the date on which the relevant scheme electricity supplier complies with paragraph (4).
If the prescribed rebate is provided after the end of the relevant scheme year, it is to be treated as being provided in the relevant scheme year.
The scheme electricity supplier who provides the prescribed rebate to P in accordance with this regulation must—
specify on P’s bill; or
otherwise notify P in writing,
that P has been given a rebate under the Scheme.
In this regulation—
“core group rebate” means a prescribed rebate under regulation 9 or, if the preceding scheme year is scheme year 15, regulation 8 of the 2022 Regulations;
references to the “preceding scheme year” include, in relation to scheme year 16, a reference to scheme year 15;
a scheme electricity supplier is the “relevant scheme electricity supplier” in respect of P for the relevant scheme year if during the preceding scheme year, the supplier informed the Secretary of State that P was a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier in that scheme year;
the “specified date” is—
where paragraph (1) applies on or before the last day of February in the relevant scheme year, 31st March in that year;
otherwise, 30th April following the end of the relevant scheme year.
Paragraph (4) is subject to regulation 12.