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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/article-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Overall obligation period",
  "text": "(1) The overall obligation period is the period—\n(a) beginning with 1st January 2013, except for a new supplier; and\n(b) ending with 31st March 2015.\n(2) For a new supplier the overall obligation period begins with, as applicable, 1st April 2013 or 1st April 2014.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 5.12.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/article/6",
    "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."
}