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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fossil-fuel-levy-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Fossil Fuel Levy (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fossil-fuel-levy-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Interest on payments and deductions in respect of levy",
  "text": "(1) Interest at the prescribed interest rate and for the prescribed period shall be paid by any licensed supplier on the amount of any payment made in accordance with—\n(a) paragraph (4) of regulation 11;\n(b) paragraph (5)(a) of regulation 14;\n(c) paragraph (2) of regulation 16;\n(d) paragraph (2) of regulation 17;\n(e) paragraph (1) of regulation 18;\n(f) paragraph (a) of regulation 21.\n(2) An amount equal to interest at the base rate of the Royal Bank of Scotland plc current from time to time during the prescribed period shall be added to the amount of any deduction made in accordance with—\n(a) paragraph (5)(b) of regulation 14;\n(b) paragraph (5) of regulation 15;\n(c) paragraph (4) of regulation 19;\n(d) paragraph (4) of regulation 20;\n(e) paragraph (b) of regulation 21; or\n(f) regulation 22.\n(3) In this regulation “prescribed period” means the period beginning on the 31st May after the last day of whichever of the periods specified in regulation 11(3)(a) and (b) the payment mentioned in paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, the deduction mentioned in paragraph (2) relates to and ending on the day on which the payment or deduction is actually made or, in the case of a payment, would have been made but for a deduction in accordance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (1.4.2006)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/641",
      "affecting_title": "The Fossil Fuel Levy (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (1.4.2006)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/641",
      "affecting_title": "The Fossil Fuel Levy (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/293/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:40.008931+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."
}