{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022/article-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022/article-84.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/875",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2022",
  "path": "article/84",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Declaration verification service",
  "text": "(1) The Administrator must—\n(a) provide a means by which a relevant authority may provide it with information about a declaration they have made under any one of articles 17 to 19 or 21(1);\n(b) maintain a record of that information; and\n(c) following a request by a participant which is accompanied by a copy of a declaration purporting to be made by a relevant authority under any one of articles 17 to 19 or 21(1) (“the purported declaration”)—\n(i) determine whether the purported declaration matches any declaration about which a record is maintained by the Administrator under sub-paragraph (b); and\n(ii) inform the participant of the outcome of that determination.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not apply to a request made on or after 1st April 2027.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 84(2) substituted (26.3.2026) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) (Specified Period) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/361), arts. 1(2), 2(16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 84 in force at 27.7.2022, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/875/article/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:56:42.299235+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."
}