{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-in-tariffs-amendment-order-2015/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-in-tariffs-amendment-order-2015/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-in-tariffs-amendment-order-2015",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Article 9",
  "text": "Article 9 (preliminary accreditation) is amended as follows—\n(a) after paragraph (iv), in paragraph (3)(a), insert—\n“(v) where the installation will be a solar photovoltaic installation with a total installed capacity of 250kW or more, whether or not the installation will be stand-alone solar photovoltaic;\n(vi) whether or not the installation will be owned by a community organisation;”;\n(b) in paragraph (4)(c)(ii), omit “and”;\n(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (4), omit the full stop and insert “; and”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (4) insert—\n“(e) if the application for preliminary accreditation specifies that the installation will be owned by a community organisation, the installation will be so owned.”;\n(e) at the beginning of paragraph (8), insert “Subject to paragraph (8A),”; and\n(f) after paragraph (8), insert—\n“(8A) Where the installation will be owned by a community organisation, preliminary accreditation shall be valid—\n(a) for solar photovoltaic installations, for 12 months;\n(b) for wind and anaerobic digestion installations, for 18 months; and\n(c) for hydro generating stations, for 30 months,\nbeginning with the date on which the application for preliminary accreditation was received by the Authority.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/35/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:50:07.182485+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."
}