{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2014/article-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2014/article-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3219",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2014",
  "path": "article/30",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Transfers of surplus actions",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a supplier (“C”) has achieved a surplus action (“S”); and\n(b) the Administrator has approved an application made in respect of S under article 27(5),\nS 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 no later than 31st December 2018 ;\n(b) provide to the Administrator such information as the Administrator may reasonably require; and\n(c) indicate whether D intends S 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 unless—\n(a) D has indicated that it intends S to be credited towards a different obligation to the one it is credited against at the time the application is made and the Administrator is not satisfied that S meets the applicable requirement in article 27(3)(c) in respect of that different obligation;\n(b) the application is made on or after 1st July 2017 and S is credited against C’s total carbon saving community obligation at the time the application is made; or\n(c) the application is made on or after 1st July 2017 and D has indicated that it intends S to be credited towards D’s total carbon saving community 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, S is treated as achieved by D and not C.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 30(2)(a) substituted (29.3.2017) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/490), arts. 1(1), 22(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 30(3) substituted (29.3.2017) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/490), arts. 1(1), 22(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3219/article/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:54:31.785918+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."
}