{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348281293",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if the Secretary of State is satisfied that—\n(a) it would not be reasonably practicable for a scheme electricity supplier to provide the prescribed rebate to a core group customer or a late rebate customer; or\n(b) a scheme electricity supplier provided a broader group rebate to a late rebate customer in the preceding scheme year, that is to say—\n(i) the scheme year preceding the scheme year during which regulation 11(1) applied in respect of the customer; or\n(ii) if regulation 11(1) applied in respect of the customer during scheme year 16, scheme year 15.\n(2) The Secretary of State may determine that regulation 10(1) or, as the case may be, 11(4) does not apply in respect of the core group customer or late rebate customer.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) a person (“P”) is a “late rebate customer” in relation to a scheme electricity supplier if—\n(i) P is specified in a late rebate notice; and\n(ii) the supplier is the relevant scheme electricity supplier in respect of P within the meaning of regulation 11(8)(c);\n(b) “broader group rebate” means a prescribed rebate under Chapter 3 of Part 4 or, if the preceding scheme year is scheme year 15, Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the 2022 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348281293/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:39.468762+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."
}