{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The benefits referred to in the definition of affordable warmth group in article 2 are—\n(a) child tax credit and has a relevant income of £15,860 or less (where “relevant income” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002);\n(b) income-related employment and support allowance and—\n(i) receiving a work-related activity or support component; or\n(ii) is responsible for a qualifying child; or\n(iii) is in receipt of a qualifying component;\n(c) income-based job seeker’s allowance and—\n(i) is responsible for a qualifying child; or\n(ii) is in receipt of a qualifying component;\n(d) income support and—\n(i) is responsible for a qualifying child; or\n(ii) is in receipt of a qualifying component;\n(e) state pension credit; ...\n(f) working tax credit and has a relevant income of £15,860 or less and—\n(i) is responsible for a qualifying child; or\n(ii) is in receipt of a disability or severe disability element; or\n(iii) is aged 60 years or over ; or\n(g) universal credit and the condition as to earned income in paragraph 3 is met and—\n(i) is responsible for a child or qualifying young person as determined under regulation 4 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; or\n(ii) has limited capability for work, or limited capability for work and work-related activity, as determined under Part 5 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; or\n(iii) is in receipt of a disability living allowance under section 71 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; or\n(iv) is in receipt of a personal independence payment under Part 4 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(b)(ii) substituted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(c)(i) substituted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(d)(i) substituted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1(e) omitted (1.5.2014) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(f)(i) substituted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1(f)(ii) substituted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(g) and word inserted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 5.12.2012, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Child tax credit and working tax credit are provided for in Part I of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c.21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 1(1) and (4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 124 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c.16)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}