{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bills-discount-scheme-regulations-2023/regulation-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bills-discount-scheme-regulations-2023/regulation-58.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/453",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Bills Discount Scheme Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-bills-discount-scheme-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Reduction of discount",
  "text": "If in relation to a supply contract either the customer or the supplier is party to an abusive arrangement—\n(a) the base discount and (in the case of an ETII supply contract) the increased discount is to be reduced by such amount as will ensure that the benefit of the scheme is not increased by that arrangement;\n(b) the party specified in paragraph (2) must promptly and as frequently as is required to give effect to this regulation—\n(i) determine the reduction in the discount required under sub-paragraph (a);\n(ii) give notice of that reduction to the other contract party;\n(c) the supplier must—\n(i) reduce the base discount and (in the case of an ETII supply contract) the increased discount by the amount determined under sub-paragraph (a);\n(ii) determine or redetermine its charges for energy supplied accordingly.\n(2) The party is—\n(a) the supplier, if it is party to the abusive arrangement;\n(b) otherwise, the customer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 58 in force at 26.4.2023, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/453/regulation/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:46:29.578611+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."
}