{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1414",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Mutualisation",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if one or more scheme electricity suppliers fail to make the whole or part of a reconciliation payment to the Operator by the date on which it is due.\n(2) The Operator must—\n(a) apportion the total of any unpaid amounts between all the scheme electricity suppliers other than the defaulting suppliers, in proportion to their market shares;\n(b) give notice to each of those suppliers (a “mutualisation notice”) that it is liable to make a payment of the amount apportioned to it (a “mutualisation payment”), and specify in relation to that payment the matters referred to in regulation 9(1)(b).\n(3) Regulation 9(2) applies in relation to a mutualisation notice.\n(4) The Operator may defer the whole or part of any payments due to scheme electricity suppliers under these Regulations, up to an amount equal to the total of any unpaid amounts, until up to 10 working days after it has received—\n(a) the unpaid amounts from the defaulting suppliers; or\n(b) mutualisation payments from the other scheme electricity suppliers.\n(5) If, after giving mutualisation notices to scheme electricity suppliers but before any of the suppliers have made a mutualisation payment, the Operator receives any unpaid amount from a defaulting supplier, the Operator must—\n(a) cancel the mutualisation notice; and\n(b) if any amounts still remain unpaid, issue a new mutualisation notice under paragraph (2) in relation to those amounts.\n(6) If, after receiving mutualisation payments from scheme electricity suppliers, the Operator receives an unpaid amount from a defaulting supplier, the Operator must within 10 working days distribute the amount received from the defaulting supplier among the suppliers that have made mutualisation payments in proportion to their market shares.\n(7) In this regulation—\n“defaulting supplier” means a scheme electricity supplier which has failed to make the whole or part of a reconciliation payment to the Operator by the date on which it is due;\n“unpaid amount” means an amount which a defaulting supplier has failed to pay by the date on which it is due.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.7.2011, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1414/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:21.138705+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."
}