# The Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011, Regulation 19: Eligibility criteria and verification measures

Extent: E+W+S

(1) A compulsory scheme electricity supplier must determine, and notify to the Authority—
(a) eligibility criteria which the supplier proposes to apply in selecting broader group customers; and
(b) measures (“verification measures”) to be taken before providing the prescribed rebate to a broader group customer, for the purpose of verifying so far as reasonably practicable that the customer meets the supplier’s eligibility criteria.
(2) A supplier may make—
(a) a notification for the purposes of one or more scheme years; and
(b) more than one notification in respect of a scheme year.
(3) When the Authority receives a notification, it must decide whether to approve—
(a) the eligibility criteria; and
(b) the verification measures.
(4) The Authority must approve a supplier’s eligibility criteria if, but only if—
(a) they satisfy Condition 1; and
(b) in the case of eligibility criteria notified for the purposes of any of scheme years 2 to 11, they also satisfy Condition 2.
(5) Condition 1 is that—
(a) in the case of eligibility criteria notified for the purposes of any of scheme years 2 to 8 and 11, the eligibility criteria include all the descriptions of persons in Part 1 of Schedule 2;
(aa) in the case of eligibility criteria notified for the purposes of any of scheme years 9 and 10, the Authority is satisfied that the eligibility criteria include all the descriptions of persons in Part 1 of Schedule 2 other than those persons meeting the criteria described in any relevant eligibility statement; and
(b) the Authority is satisfied that customers meeting any other criterion will wholly or mainly be persons in fuel poverty, or in a fuel poverty risk group.
(6) Condition 2 is that the criteria are such as to ensure that in scheme years 2 to 11, customers meeting the criteria will wholly or mainly be persons who were not core group customers in the previous scheme year.
(7) The Authority must approve a supplier’s proposed verification measures if, but only if—
(a) they include all the measures specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2; or
(b) the Authority is satisfied that the measures will be at least as effective as those specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 for the purpose of verifying so far as reasonably practicable that customers provided with the prescribed rebate under this Chapter meet the supplier’s eligibility criteria.
(8) In this regulation, “relevant eligibility statement” means an eligibility statement for the scheme year which has been consulted on and published by the Secretary of State before the start of the scheme year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1033/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-regulations-2011/regulation-19
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