{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2011/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Direction to carry out interim reconciliation",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies, in relation to a scheme year, at any time—\n(a) after the Secretary of State has given one or more notices to scheme electricity suppliers under regulation 6 of the Scheme Regulations; and\n(b) before the Authority has given a notification to the Operator under regulation 7(a) or, in the case of scheme years 7 to 11, to any scheme electricity supplier under regulation 7(b).\n(2) The Secretary of State may direct the Operator to carry out an interim reconciliation for the scheme year or any part of the scheme year (an “interim reconciliation period”).\n(3) An interim reconciliation is a determination of amounts to be paid or received by scheme electricity suppliers on account of final reconciliation payments for that scheme year.\n(4) The Secretary of State may give more than one direction to the Operator under paragraph (2) in relation to different parts of the scheme year.\n(5) If the Secretary of State gives a direction under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State must—\n(a) specify the interim reconciliation period (which must be a period ending on or before the date on which the direction is given);\n(b) notify the Operator of—\n(i) the total number of eligible domestic customers, and\n(ii) the number of eligible domestic customers of each scheme electricity supplier,\nto be used for the purpose of calculating interim reconciliation payments; and\n(c) notify each scheme electricity supplier of the direction, specifying—\n(i) the interim reconciliation period;\n(ii) the total number of eligible domestic customers notified to the Operator under sub-paragraph (b)(i); and\n(iii) the number of eligible domestic customers of that scheme electricity supplier notified to the Operator under sub-paragraph (b)(ii).\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), the number of eligible domestic customers of a scheme electricity supplier to be used for the purpose of calculating interim reconciliation payments is A – B where—\n(a) A is the number of persons specified in notices under regulation 6(1) of the Scheme Regulations given to the supplier during the interim reconciliation period; and\n(b) B is the number of those persons whom, in accordance with regulation 9(5) of the Scheme Regulations, the supplier has within the interim reconciliation period notified the Secretary of State are not core group customers or the supplier is unable to identify as core group customers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1)(b) substituted (16.9.2017) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/847), regs. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1)(b) substituted (25.6.2021) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/667), regs. 1, 23(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}