Regulation 55 Draw down of credit coverI1
England, Wales and Scotland
This regulation applies where—
a scheme supplier (the “defaulting scheme supplier”) fails to pay the whole or any part of—
a quarterly levy payment in accordance with regulation 40, or
a mutualisation payment required in accordance with regulation 56, or
the Authority has served a notice under regulation 51(7) on a former scheme supplier (the “defaulting scheme supplier”) and the final quarterly levy payment specified in the notice is greater than £0.
The Authority must draw down the defaulting scheme supplier’s existing credit cover no earlier than—
where paragraph (1)(a) applies, the next working day after the day on which payment of the unpaid amount was due, or
where paragraph (1)(b) applies, the next wording day after the date specified in the notice in accordance with regulation 51(7A)(a) or (7C)(a) or (e) (as applicable).
The Authority must not draw down against a letter of credit provided by the defaulting scheme supplier in relation to the defaulting scheme supplier’s final quarterly levy payment where—
regulation 51(7B) applies to the supplier, and
the defaulting scheme supplier has paid to the Authority by the date specified in the notice an amount required to discharge the defaulting scheme supplier’s final quarterly levy payment or, where regulation 51(7D)(c)(ii) applies, the in lieu amount.
The Authority may also draw down the defaulting scheme supplier’s existing credit cover in respect of any interest (calculated in accordance with regulation 54) due on the amount that the defaulting scheme supplier has failed to pay.
Where the Authority draws down a defaulting scheme supplier’s existing credit cover, the Authority must notify the defaulting scheme supplier of that draw down and the notification must specify—
the amount of the defaulting scheme supplier’s existing credit cover subject to the draw down, and
whether the draw down is against payments made, or a letter of credit provided, by the defaulting scheme supplier, or both.
Where draw down is against payments made by the defaulting scheme supplier, the amount drawn down is treated as a payment by the defaulting scheme supplier in respect of their quarterly levy payment F4, mutualisation payment, final quarterly levy payment or interest payment (as the case may be).
Where draw down is against a letter of credit provided by the defaulting scheme supplier—
the Authority must take steps to demand payment from the person who provided the letter of credit for the lesser of—
the amount which can be demanded under that letter of credit, and
the unpaid amount, and
the amount which is paid to the Authority under that letter of credit is treated as a payment by the defaulting scheme supplier in respect of their quarterly levy payment F5, mutualisation payment, final quarterly levy payment or interest payment (as the case may be), made at the time that amount is received by the Authority.
The Authority may draw down against a letter of credit provided by a defaulting scheme supplier notwithstanding that the letter of credit has ceased to constitute an acceptable letter of credit.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Reg. 55(1)(b) substituted (1.12.2023) by The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1317), regs. 1(1), 9(a)
- F2
Reg. 55(2) substituted (1.12.2023) by The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1317), regs. 1(1), 9(b)
- F3
Reg. 55(2A)(2B) inserted (1.12.2023) by The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1317), regs. 1(1), 9(c)
- F4
Words in reg. 55(4) substituted (1.12.2023) by The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1317), regs. 1(1), 9(d)
- F5
Words in reg. 55(5)(b) substituted (1.12.2023) by The Green Gas Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1317), regs. 1(1), 9(e)
Commencement
- I1
Reg. 55 in force at 30.11.2021, see reg. 1(1)