{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-6/paragraph-7.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/6/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transfer of permits: application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), a permit holder (the “transferring operator”) and another person (the “new operator”) may jointly apply to the regulator—\n(a) for the transfer of the permit to the new operator;\n(b) for the partial transfer of the permit to the new operator.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, the partial transfer of a permit is the transfer in respect of part of the installation at which the permit authorises a regulated activity to be carried out.\n(3) An application for the transfer or partial transfer of a permit may not be made in respect of an installation (or part of an installation) in circumstances in which the transferred activities have ceased to be carried out unless the transferring operator is satisfied that the new operator intends to resume those activities.\n(4) An application may not be made for the partial transfer of a hospital or small emitter permit.\n(5) In this paragraph and paragraphs 8 to 10—\n“existing permit” has the meaning given in paragraph 9(3A) or (5);\n“new operator” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (1);\n“transferred activities” has the meaning given in paragraph 8(1)(a);\n“transferred units” has the meaning given in paragraph 8(1)(a);\n“transferring operator” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(3) substituted (6.2.2025) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/100), arts. 2(2), 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 7(5) substituted (7.2.2022) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1455), arts. 2, 24(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 6 para. 7(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), arts. 2(1), 38(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 7 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/schedule/6/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}