{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-regulations-2021/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-regulations-2021/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/1335",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-gas-support-scheme-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application for registration as a participant",
  "text": "(1) A producer of biomethane who has been granted a tariff guarantee which has not been revoked may apply to the Authority to be registered as a participant in relation to the equipment used to produce biomethane to which that tariff guarantee applies.\n(2) An application for registration must be in writing and supported by—\n(a) such of the information specified in Schedule 1 (information required for registration) as the Authority may require,\n(b) a declaration that the information provided by the applicant is accurate to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief, and\n(c) a declaration as to the volume expressed in cubic metres of biomethane which the applicant expects to produce for injection each year.\n(3) Before registering a producer of biomethane as a participant, the Authority may request access without notice at any reasonable hour to carry out inspections of any equipment which is being used to produce the biomethane for which the applicant is intending to claim periodic support payments, and any injection equipment, in order to satisfy itself that the applicant should be registered.\n(4) Where the applicant is not also the person producing the biogas used to produce the biomethane in respect of which that application is made, the Authority may require that the applicant—\n(a) has the authority, from all persons who produce the biogas used to produce the biomethane, to be the participant, and\n(b) provides to the Authority, in such manner and form as the Authority may request, evidence of that authority.\n(5) Where the Authority considers that further information is necessary for the purpose of determining an application, it may by notice—\n(a) specify the further information which the applicant is required to provide,\n(b) specify a period of no less than four weeks beginning with the date of the notice within which that information must be provided, and\n(c) inform the applicant that failure to provide the requested information within that period may result in the application being rejected.\n(6) The Authority may by notice extend the period specified in a notice under paragraph (5)(b) where it is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 30.11.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1335/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:06:38.962935+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."
}