{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2018/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2018/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/611",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Calculation and payment of periodic support payments to participants",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A) and regulations 52 to 55A and 76 to 83, periodic support payments are payable for 20 years from the tariff start date.\n(1A) For an accredited RHI installation or producer of biomethane for injection with a tariff start date after 31st March 2021, periodic support payments are payable for the period beginning on the tariff start date and ending on 31st March 2041.\n(2) Subject to regulations 35(9), 60(2) and 62(2) the tariff to be used for the purpose of calculating periodic support payments is—\n(a) the initial tariff, for the period commencing with the tariff start date and ending with the end of the financial year in which that tariff start date falls; and\n(b) the subsequent tariff, for each subsequent financial year.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(1) inserted (20.7.2020) by The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/650), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 59(1) substituted (1.10.2018) by The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/635), regs. 1(4), 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 59(1A) inserted (20.7.2020) by The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/650), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/611/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:48.394569+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."
}