The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendments to regulation 2 (interpretation)

3.  In regulation 2—

(a) insert “(1)” before “In these Regulations—”;

(b) after the definition of “commissioned” insert the following definition—

““consumer prices index” means—

(a)

the consumer prices index calculated and published by the Office of National Statistics; or

(b)

where the index is not published for a year, any substituted index or figures published by that Office;”;

(c) after the definition of “environmental permit” insert the following definition—

““environmental quality assurance scheme” means a voluntary scheme which establishes environmental or social standards in relation to the production of biomass or matter from which biomass is derived;”;

(d) after the definition of “working day” insert the following—

“(2) Where these Regulations provide for a figure to be rounded—

(a) if the figure is required to be stated to one decimal place, that figure must be rounded to the nearest tenth of a penny, with any twentieth of a penny being rounded upwards;

(b) if the figure is required to be stated to two decimal places, that figure must be rounded to the nearest hundredth of a penny, with any two hundredth of a penny being rounded upwards.”.