{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2022/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2022/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-reconciliation-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Part 2: Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“Bank of England base rate” means—\n(a)the percentage rate announced from time to time by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England as the official dealing rate, being the rate at which the Bank is willing to enter into transactions for providing short term liquidity in the money markets; or\n(b)where an order under section 19 of the Bank of England Act 1998 is in force, any equivalent percentage rate determined by the Treasury under that section;\n...\n“final reconciliation” means the calculation by the Authority of the amounts to be paid by, or received by, scheme electricity suppliers as final reconciliation payments for a scheme year;\n“final reconciliation payment” has the meaning given in regulation 10(1);\n“interim reconciliation” has the meaning given in regulation 6(2);\n“interim reconciliation direction” has the meaning given in regulation 6(3);\n“interim reconciliation payment” has the meaning given in regulation 7(1);\n“interim reconciliation period” has the meaning given in regulation 6(5);\n“original non-core spending obligation” in relation to a compulsory scheme electricity supplier and a scheme year, means a supplier’s non core spending obligation for the scheme year calculated in accordance with regulation 20 of the England & Wales Scheme Regulations before any adjustments under regulation 21 or 22 of those Regulations;\n“reconciliation payment” means—\n(a)an interim reconciliation payment; or\n(b)a final reconciliation payment;\n“relevant supplier” means—\n(a)a scheme electricity supplier; or\n(b)a scheme gas supplier;\n“reporting date” has the meaning given in regulation 4(6);\n“standard rebate notice” has the meaning given in regulation 9(1)(a) of the England & Wales Scheme Regulations.\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday or public holiday in England and Wales or in Scotland.\n(2) In this Part the following expressions have the same meanings as in the England & Wales Scheme Regulations—\n“compulsory scheme electricity supplier”;\n“core group customer”;\n“GB domestic customer”;\n“scheme electricity supplier”;\n“scheme gas supplier”;\n“scheme year” and “scheme year” followed by a number.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (28.9.2026) by virtue of The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(a) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (28.9.2026) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(b) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (28.9.2026) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(c) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (28.9.2026) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(d) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (28.9.2026) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(e) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) inserted (28.9.2026) by The Warm Home Discount (Reconciliation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/991), regs. 1(2), 4(2) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 30.11.2022, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The “Authority” is defined in section 34 of the Energy Act 2010."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See regulations 2 and 3 of those Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1162/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:50.378041+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."
}