{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Substitution of regulation 4",
  "text": "For regulation 4 (notification of GB domestic customer numbers: scheme years 13 to 15) substitute—\n“Notification of GB domestic gas and electricity unit volumes: scheme years 16 to 20\n4 (1) For each of scheme years 16 to 20, the Secretary of State may give one or more notices to the Authority specifying—\n(a) one or more reporting periods for the scheme year; and\n(b) one or more reporting dates for the scheme year,\nstating that the reporting period or date relates to either interim or final reconciliation, or both, as appropriate.\n(2) If the Authority is given a notice under paragraph (1), the Authority must give a notice to all relevant suppliers specifying—\n(a) the reporting period; and\n(b) the reporting date,\nstating that the reporting period or date relates to either interim or final reconciliation, or both, as appropriate.\n(3) A relevant supplier to whom a notice under paragraph (2) is given must notify the Authority on or before the reporting date, and in such form as may be specified in the notice, of such information as the Authority may require for the purpose of determining the total volume of electricity and gas units delivered by that supplier to all their GB domestic customers in the relevant reporting period specified in paragraph (2).\n(4) If a relevant supplier does not comply with the requirements in paragraph (3), the Authority must, to the best of its ability with the information available to it, determine the supplier’s total volume of electricity and gas units delivered to all their GB domestic customers in the relevant reporting period specified in paragraph (2).\n(5) The Authority may use volumetric data which it has already previously collected as part of—\n(a) voluntary requests for information; or\n(b) final reconciliation;\nfor the purposes of interim reconciliation.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“reporting date”, in relation to a scheme year, means a date specified as a reporting date in a notice given by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1), by which date the supplier’s total volume of electricity and gas units delivered to all their GB domestic customers must be reported to the Authority for the purposes of interim reconciliation, or final reconciliation, as the case may be;\n“reporting period”, in relation to a scheme year, means a period specified as a reporting period, being the period for which the supplier’s total volume of electricity and gas units delivered to all their GB domestic customers is calculated, in accordance with a notice given by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1).\n(7) For the final reconciliation, the reporting period must conclude on 31st March in any scheme year.\n(8) For the final reconciliation, the reporting date must fall within two months from the date of the end of the reporting period.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/991/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:34:01.236194+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."
}