{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1033",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Name and duration of scheme",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations establish a scheme for reducing fuel poverty, to be known as the Warm Home Discount scheme.\n(2) The scheme has effect during the period from the commencement date to 31st March 2016 (“the first scheme period”).\n(3) The following duties and powers continue to apply after the end of the first scheme period—\n(a) the duties of scheme suppliers under regulations 9(5) and (6), 24(2) and 30(3) and Part 1 of Schedule 3;\n(b) the duty of the Secretary of State under regulation 10;\n(c) the duties of the Authority under regulations 23 and 29 and Part 2 of Schedule 3; and\n(d) the powers of the Authority under regulations 24(3) and 30(1) and (2).\n(4) The scheme also has effect during the period—\n(a) from the third commencement date to 31st March 2018 (“the second scheme period”);\n(b) from the fourth commencement date to 31st March 2021 (“the third scheme period”); and\n(c) from the fifth commencement date to 31st March 2022 (“the fourth scheme period”).\n(5) The following duties and powers continue to apply after the end of the second scheme period , after the end of the third scheme period and after the end of the fourth scheme period—\n(a) the duties of scheme suppliers under regulations 9(6) and (7), 14(3A) and 30(3);\n(b) the duty of the Secretary of State under regulation 10;\n(c) the duties of the Authority under regulation 29; and\n(d) the powers of the Authority under regulation 30(1) and (2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) substituted (11.3.2015) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/652), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) inserted (23.7.2016) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/806), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(3) inserted (23.7.2016) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/806), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4) substituted (25.6.2021) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/667), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4)(5) inserted (23.7.2016) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/806), regs. 1, 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(5) substituted (25.6.2021) by The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/667), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2011, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1033/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:55.966207+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."
}