{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/article-21A",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3018",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012",
  "path": "article/21A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Transfers of excess actions",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a supplier (“C”) has achieved an excess action or group excess action (“E”); and\n(b) the Administrator has approved an application made in respect of E under article 21(9) or article 21ZA(5), as applicable,\nE may be regarded as achieved by another supplier (“D”) (“a transfer”) if that transfer is approved by the Administrator in accordance with this article.\n(2) C and D must—\n(a) apply for approval in writing to the Administrator by 30th April 2015;\n(b) provide to the Administrator such information, including the number and type of excess actions intended to be transferred, as the Administrator may reasonably require; and\n(c) indicate whether D intends E to be credited towards D’s—\n(i) total carbon emissions reduction obligation;\n(ii) total carbon saving community obligation; or\n(iii) total home heating cost reduction obligation.\n(3) The Administrator must approve a transfer—\n(a) in a case where D has indicated that it intends E to be credited towards a different obligation from the one notified under article 21(2)(b) or article 21ZA(4)(d)(ii), if the Administrator is satisfied that E meets any applicable requirement in article 21(4)(d) or (5)(d) or article 21ZA(3) in respect of that different obligation; and\n(b) unless it has reasonable grounds to believe that, if the transfer were approved, C would not be able to achieve its—\n(i) total carbon emissions reduction obligation;\n(ii) total carbon saving community obligation; or\n(iii) total home heating cost reduction obligation.\n(4) If the Administrator decides not to approve a transfer under paragraph (3) it must notify C and D of the reasons for that decision.\n(5) If a transfer is approved, E is treated as achieved by D and not C.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 21A inserted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3231), arts. 1, 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A(1)(b) inserted (5.12.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3231), arts. 1, 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A(3)(a) inserted (5.12.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3231), arts. 1, 14(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A(3)(a) inserted (5.12.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3231), arts. 1, 14(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/article/21A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:31.792416+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."
}