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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1414",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for the establishment and operation of a reconciliation mechanism for the purposes of the Warm Home Discount scheme established by the Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1033) (“the Scheme Regulations”). The Scheme Regulations place obligations on electricity suppliers to incur spending in each scheme year (as defined in regulation 2 of those Regulations) on the provision of benefits, including rebates, to customers in or at risk of fuel poverty.\nThe reconciliation mechanism provides for payments to be made to, or by, each electricity supplier which provides rebates to customers (“core group customers”) as directed by the Secretary of State under Part 3 of the Scheme Regulations, so that the cost to each electricity supplier of providing rebates to core group customers is proportionate to its market share.\nIn Part 1, regulation 3 provides for the appointment of an Operator to administer the reconciliation mechanism. Regulation 4 includes provision about the calculation of market shares.\nPart 2 (regulations 5 and 6) makes provision for interim reconciliations to be carried out during a scheme year, under which each scheme electricity supplier will make or receive a payment on account of its liability or entitlement for that scheme year.\nPart 3 (regulations 7 and 8) makes provision for final reconciliations to be carried out following the end of each scheme year.\nPart 4 (regulations 9 to 16) contains general provisions. These include provision about making of payments (regulation 9), ‘mutualisation’ among the remaining scheme electricity suppliers in the event of a supplier’s default in making payments (regulation 10), adjustments to be made in the event of a scheme electricity supplier’s licence being revoked or otherwise terminated (regulation 11), payment of interest (regulations 12 and 13) and appeals and correction of errors (regulations 14 to 16).\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Fuel Poverty Team, Department of Energy & Climate Change, 3 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2AW and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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