{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/section-146",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/section-146.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/52",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023",
  "path": "section/146",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "146",
  "heading": "Further provision about scheme regulations",
  "text": "(1) Scheme regulations must provide for the making of determinations as to whether a scheme participant has met a low-carbon heat target imposed on the scheme participant.\n(2) Scheme regulations may make provision for monitoring the operation of a low-carbon heat scheme, and may in particular make provision about—\n(a) the keeping of records by scheme participants and others;\n(b) the provision of information by scheme participants and others;\n(c) the audit and verification of information provided by scheme participants and others.\n(3) Scheme regulations may make provision—\n(a) enabling scheme participants to pool or transfer low-carbon heat targets imposed on them;\n(b) for the issuing of certificates representing activities or appliances to which a low-carbon heat target relates;\n(c) enabling scheme participants to acquire certificates mentioned in paragraph (b) for the purpose of meeting a low-carbon heat target;\n(d) about the keeping of records in relation to—\n(i) the pooling or transfer of low-carbon heat targets;\n(ii) the acquisition of certificates.\n(4) Scheme regulations may make provision—\n(a) requiring a scheme participant who fails to meet a low-carbon heat target to make a payment, before a specified deadline, of an amount specified by or determined in accordance with the regulations;\n(b) for a payment mentioned in paragraph (a) to be made to the administrator (see section 147) or to such other person as the regulations may specify;\n(c) for a person who fails to meet a low-carbon heat target to be subject to such consequences (instead of or in addition to a requirement mentioned in paragraph (a)) as may be specified;\n(d) about how liability to make a payment, or to other consequences, is to be determined where low-carbon heat targets have been pooled or transferred by virtue of provision made under subsection (3)(a).\n(5) In subsection (4), “specified” means specified in scheme regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 146 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 334(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/52/section/146",
    "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."
}