{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-5A/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-5A/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/5A/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Central accounts",
  "text": "(1) The UK ETS authority may open accounts in the name of the UK ETS authority for the purposes of the UK ETS, in particular—\n(a) a total quantity account (for the creation of allowances under article 18);\n(b) an allocation account (to hold allowances to be allocated under Part 4A);\n(c) a new entrants' reserve account (to keep track of the new entrants' reserve referred to in article 34G);\n(d) an auction account (to hold allowances to be auctioned under the Auctioning Regulations);\n(e) a market stability mechanism account (to hold excess allowances unsold at auctions under the Auctioning Regulations);\n(f) a deletion account (to hold allowances deleted under paragraph 23);\n(g) a surrender account (to hold allowances surrendered under paragraph 24);\n(h) one or more general holding accounts (to hold allowances transferred from accounts before closure under paragraph 30);\n(i) a flexible reserve account (to keep track of the flexible reserve referred to in article 23A).\n(2) An account held by the UK ETS authority is a “central account”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), arts. 2(1), 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5A para. 9(1)(i) inserted (19.12.2024) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1366), arts. 2(1)(d), 31(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/schedule/5A/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:06.111058+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."
}