{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/642",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1)—\n(a) at the appropriate places insert—\n““air source heat pump” means a plant which generates heat using a thermodynamic cycle by transferring energy stored in the form of heat in the ambient air and uses that energy to heat a liquid;”;\n““eligible heat pump” has the meaning given in regulation 8A(8);”;\n““ground source heat pump” means a plant (which may or may not use a shared ground loop system) which generates heat using a thermodynamic cycle by transferring energy stored in the form of heat from the ground, including water in the ground or surface water or both, and uses that energy to heat a liquid;”;\n““shared ground loop system”means a system in which a ground loop provides heat energy through a hydraulic connection to two or more ground source heat pumps;”;\n(b) in the definition of “scheme year”, in paragraph (b), for “2040”, substitute “2042”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 100(3) of the Energy Act 2008 for the definition of “plant”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/642/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:29:28.774206+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."
}