{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/schedule-18/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/schedule-18/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/52",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Initial period",
  "text": "(1) The regulations may make provision with respect to persons carrying on a regulated activity in relation to a relevant heat network during a period that—\n(a) begins with the day on which any regulations made by virtue of paragraph 12 come into force, and\n(b) ends with a day specified in the regulations.\n(2) The regulations may—\n(a) provide for the period to be prolonged, or to be prolonged as it relates to a description of heat network authorisations, by the Regulator;\n(b) require the consent of the Secretary of State or the Department (as the case may be) to such an alteration.\n(3) Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) may—\n(a) provide for a person carrying on a regulated activity in relation to a relevant heat network to be treated as holding a heat network authorisation in relation to that activity and that relevant heat network during the period described in sub-paragraph (1) (or, if applicable, during that period as prolonged by virtue of sub-paragraph (2));\n(b) make provision as to the conditions of the heat network authorisation treated as conferred on such a person (including provision similar to the provision described in paragraph 14(2));\n(c) require a person carrying on a regulated activity in relation to a relevant heat network to apply to the Regulator for a heat network authorisation to be conferred on the person by a time specified in or determined under the regulations.\n(4) Regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (3)(c) may provide for different times for different descriptions of case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 21 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 334(2)(l)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/52/schedule/18/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:44.989649+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."
}