Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “broader group customer” is to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 18(1);

• “commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;

• “compulsory scheme electricity supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 5(1);

• F1“compulsory smaller electricity supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 5(6);

• “core group customer” has the meaning given in regulation 7(2);

• F2“couple” means—

  1. (a)

     two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or

  2. (b)

     two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together F3as if they were a married couple or civil partners;

• “domestic customer” means an owner or occupier of domestic premises in Great Britain who is supplied with electricity or gas at those premises wholly or mainly for domestic purposes;

• “dual fuel” means electricity and gas, where both are supplied to a domestic customer at the same domestic premises, by a person who is both a licensed electricity supplier and a licensed gas supplier;

• F4“eligibility statement” means a document which describes the criteria adopted by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing the prescribed rebate in a scheme year to persons living in fuel poverty or in a fuel poverty risk group;

• F5“eligible occupier of a mobile home” means an occupier of a mobile home—

  1. (a)

     who is, or whose partner is, in receipt of F6guarantee credit,

  2. (aa)

     F7who meets the criteria described in any eligibility statement for the scheme year consulted on and published by the Secretary of State before the start of the scheme year, or

  3. (c)

     who would be eligible to be a broader group customer if they were a domestic customer of a scheme supplier;

• “energy advice” means advice on reducing or preventing the wastage of energy in domestic premises;

• F8“fifth commencement date” means the date on which the Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 come into force;

• F9“fourth commencement date” means the date on which the Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 come into force;

• “group of companies” means a holding company and the wholly-owned subsidiaries of that holding company; and “holding company” and “wholly-owned subsidiary” have the same meanings as in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006^f1;

• F10“guarantee credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;

• “industry initiative” has the meaning given in regulation 26(1);

• “legacy spending”, and references to the amount of legacy spending incurred by a relevant supplier, are to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 21(2);

• “mobile home” has the meaning given in section 5 of the Mobile Homes Act 1983;

• “non-core spending obligation” is to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 13;

• “non-gas fuelled”, in relation to a property, means a property where the main space heating system is not—

  1. (a)

     fuelled by mains gas,

  2. (b)

     a district heating system,

  where “mains gas” is a supply of the kind mentioned in section 5(1)(b) of the Gas Act 1986, and a “district heating system” is a system that delivers heat through pipes or conduits to two or more domestic premises;,

• “occupier” in relation to a mobile home means the occupier of that mobile home within the meaning given in section 1 of the Mobile Homes Act 1983;

• “partner” means a member of a couple;

• “the prescribed rebate” means a rebate of—

  1. (a)

     in scheme year 1, £120;

  2. (b)

     in scheme year 2, £130;

  3. (c)

     in scheme year 3, £135; and

  4. (d)

     F11in all other scheme years, £140;

• “relevant supplier” means a compulsory scheme electricity supplier, or a scheme gas supplier which is connected to a compulsory scheme electricity supplier, which—

  1. (a)

     made a voluntary commitment; and

  2. (b)

     under that commitment, provided financial benefits to domestic customers in the period from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011;

• F12“scheme electricity supplier” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to any of the scheme years 1 to 8, a compulsory scheme electricity supplier or a voluntary scheme electricity supplier;

  2. (b)

     in relation to a subsequent scheme year, a compulsory scheme electricity supplier, a compulsory smaller electricity supplier or a voluntary scheme electricity supplier;

• “scheme gas supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 5(5);

• “scheme supplier” means a scheme electricity supplier or a scheme gas supplier;

• F13“scheme year” means a period—

  1. (a)

     from the commencement date to 31st March 2012 (“scheme year 1”);

  2. (b)

     of 12 months commencing on 1st April in any of the years 2012 to 2015 (and “scheme year” followed by a number from 2 to 5 means the scheme year commencing in 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015, as the case may be);

  3. (c)

     from the third commencement date to 31st May 2017 (“scheme year 6”); F14...

  4. (d)

     from 1st June 2017 to 31st March 2018 (“scheme year 7”);

  5. (e)

     F15from the fourth commencement date to 31st March 2019 (“scheme year 8”);

  6. (f)

     from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 (“scheme year 9”); F16...

  7. (g)

     from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021 (“scheme year 10”); F17or

  8. (h)

     F18from the fifth commencement date to 31st March 2022 (“scheme year 11”);

• “second commencement date” means the date on which the Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 come into force;

• F19“smart meter advice” means advice on the benefits of using a smart meter in domestic premises;

• F20“specified activity” has the meaning given in regulation 27A(1);

• “state pension credit” has the meaning given by section 1 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002^f2;

• F21“third commencement date” means the date on which the Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 come into force;

• “voluntary commitment” means a commitment made by a licensed electricity supplier or a licensed gas supplier to the Secretary of State, in respect of the period from 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2011, to provide financial benefits to customers and carry out other initiatives, for the purpose of assisting persons in fuel poverty or in fuel poverty risk groups; F22...

• “voluntary scheme electricity supplier” has the meaning given in regulation 5(4) F23and (4A);;

• F24“working days” means any day other than—

  1. (a)

     a Saturday or Sunday; or

  2. (b)

     a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales or in Scotland under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

For the purposes of these Regulations, an electricity supplier or gas supplier (A) is connected to an electricity supplier or gas supplier (B) if A and B are companies belonging to the same group of companies.

For the purposes of these Regulations, a prescribed rebate is undelivered if—