{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Obligation to incur spending and amounts of spending",
  "text": "(1) In each scheme year, a compulsory scheme electricity supplier must incur spending under this Part to the amount of its non-core spending obligation.\n(1A) In scheme year 15, the amount a compulsory scheme electricity supplier must spend under this Part is their non-core spending obligation as notified in accordance with regulation 18A(2)(b).\n(2) In doing so, the supplier—\n(a) must provide prescribed rebates under Chapter 3 (broader group) to at least the number of Scotland domestic customers (if any) specified by its broader group rebate target;\n(b) may include spending under Chapter 4 (industry initiatives), subject to the limits in paragraphs (3) and (4); and\n(c) may include spending under Chapter 5 (specified activities).\n(3) Where the aggregate non-core spending obligation exceeds £600,000, the amount of spending on debt write-off under regulation 24 which a supplier counts towards its non-core spending obligation—\n(a) must not exceed the supplier’s obligation percentage of £300,000 in respect of customers who are supplied with neither electricity or gas through a pre-payment meter;\n(b) must not, in total, exceed the supplier’s obligation percentage of £600,000.\n(4) Where the aggregate non-core spending obligation exceeds £800,000, the amount of spending on the installation of boilers or central heating systems under regulation 24 which a supplier counts towards its non-core spending obligation must not in total exceed the supplier’s obligation percentage of £800,000.\n(5) This regulation is subject to regulations 26 and 27.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 19(1A) inserted (18.9.2025) by The Warm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1031), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 20.10.2022, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1073/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:54:45.778607+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."
}