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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3038",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Conversion of a greenhouse gas emissions permit",
  "text": "(1) Where a greenhouse gas emissions permit has been granted in respect of an installation that is an Article 27 installation, the regulator must vary the greenhouse gas emissions permit (with effect from a date to be included in the permit) so that the provisions of the permit are replaced by provisions that satisfy the requirements of paragraph 3.\n(2) When a permit is varied under sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) the regulator may make only such variations as appear to the regulator to be necessary in consequence of the installation being an Article 27 installation; but\n(b) that is without prejudice to the duty to vary the permit in accordance with regulation 88(2) or (4).\n(3) A variation of a permit under this paragraph does not affect any obligations of the operator under the permit in respect of emissions arising prior to 1st January 2021.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked in so far as they continue to apply in relation to the UK Registry (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 2(1) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440), regs. 1(4), 29(4)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/18, regs. 1, 11(4) and S.I. 2020/1369, regs. 1(2), 44(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 2(2)(a) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440), regs. 1(4), 29(4)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/18, regs. 1, 11(4) and S.I. 2020/1369, regs. 1(2), 44(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 2(2)(b) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440), regs. 1(4), 29(4)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/18, regs. 1, 11(4) and S.I. 2020/1369, regs. 1(2), 44(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 2(3) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440), regs. 1(4), 29(4)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/18, regs. 1, 11(4) and S.I. 2020/1369, regs. 1(2), 44(a))"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3038/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:20.029288+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."
}