{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment of the Operator",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, in relation to each scheme year in which the Secretary of State gives one or more notices under regulation 6 of the Scheme Regulations—\n(a) appoint a person to be the Operator for the purposes of these Regulations; and\n(b) notify the Authority, and each licensed electricity supplier which is a scheme electricity supplier in that scheme year, of the appointment.\n(2) The Secretary of State—\n(a) may terminate the appointment of a person as the Operator; and\n(b) must, as soon as reasonably practicable after such a termination, appoint another person to be the Operator.\n(3) This regulation does not apply where the Authority is the Operator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) inserted (16.9.2017) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/847), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}