{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-7/paragraph-23B",
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  "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/7/paragraph/23B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23B",
  "heading": "End of hospital or small emitter status: voluntary exit of status for 2027-2030 allocation period",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the operator of an installation included in the hospital and small emitter list for 2026-2030 notifies the regulator on or before 30th June 2026 as part of the second stage of an application for free allocation in the 2027-2030 allocation period under Article 4(1a)(b)(i) of the Free Allocation Regulation that—\n(a) the operator wishes the application to proceed because the operator does not wish the installation to be a hospital or small emitter for the scheme years in the 2027-2030 allocation period; and\n(b) the UK ETS authority informs the regulator under Article 15a(4) of that Regulation that the application is valid.\n(2) The regulator must, as soon as reasonably practicable, give a notice (a “conversion notice”) to the operator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 23B inserted (31.3.2025) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/124), arts. 2, 31(9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/schedule/7/paragraph/23B",
    "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."
}