{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2483",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Administration Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Verification and filing",
  "text": "(1) The statement of the protected energy company’s affairs shall be in Form EA8, contain all the particulars required by that form and shall be verified by a statement of truth by the relevant person.\n(2) The energy administrator may require any relevant person to submit a statement of concurrence in Form EA9 stating that he concurs in the statement of affairs. Where the energy administrator does so, he shall inform the person making the statement of affairs of that fact.\n(3) The statement of affairs shall be delivered by the relevant person making the statement of truth, together with a copy, to the energy administrator. The relevant person shall also deliver a copy of the statement of affairs to all those persons whom the energy administrator has required to make a statement of concurrence.\n(4) A person required to submit a statement of concurrence shall do so before the end of the period of 5 business days (or such other period as the energy administrator may agree) beginning with the day on which the statement of affairs being concurred with is received by him.\n(5) A statement of concurrence may be qualified in respect of matters dealt with in the statement of affairs, where the maker of the statement of concurrence is not in agreement with the relevant person, or he considers the statement of affairs to be erroneous or misleading, or he is without the direct knowledge necessary for concurring with it.\n(6) Every statement of concurrence shall be verified by a statement of truth and be delivered to the energy administrator by the person who makes it, together with a copy of it.\n(7) Subject to Rule 17 below, the energy administrator shall as soon as reasonably practicable send to the registrar of companies and file with the court a Form EA10 together with a copy of the statement of affairs and any statement of concurrence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 16 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2483/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:53.544569+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."
}