{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the award of universal credit is—\n(a) to a single claimant, the condition as to earned income is that, in any of the twelve preceding assessment periods, the claimant has received earned income which does not exceed £1,167; or\n(b) to joint claimants, the condition as to earned income is that, in any of the twelve preceding assessment periods, the combined earned income received by the claimants does not exceed £1,167.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n(a) “assessment period”;\n(b) “earned income”;\n(c) “joint claimants”; and\n(d) “single claimant”,\nare to be interpreted in accordance with the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and any subordinate legislation made under that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (1.5.2014) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1131), arts. 1(1), 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}