{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-52.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Obligation in connection with electricity from renewable sources",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make a renewables obligation order.\n(2) A renewables obligation order is an order which imposes the renewables obligation on each electricity supplier falling within a specified description (a “designated electricity supplier”).\n(3) The descriptions of electricity supplier upon which a renewables obligation order may impose the renewables obligation are those supplying electricity in Northern Ireland excluding such categories of supplier (if any) as are specified.\n(4) The renewables obligation is that the designated electricity supplier must, by each specified day, have produced to the Authority the required number of renewables obligation certificates in respect of the amount of electricity supplied by him to customers in Northern Ireland during a specified period.\n(5) In this Part, “electricity supplier” means the holder of a licence under Article 10(1)(c) or (2) of the Electricity Order, except where he is acting otherwise than for the purposes connected with the carrying on of activities authorised by the licence.\n(6) Paragraph (4) is subject to Articles 53 to 55F.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 52-55F substituted (1.2.2009) for arts. 52-55 by Energy (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/35), art. 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/419/article/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:20.413064+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."
}