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PART 4Achievement of obligations, determining savings and surplus actions

Achievement of carbon saving community obligation

14.—(1) A supplier must achieve its total carbon saving community obligation by the end of March 2017.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) and article 15, a supplier must achieve its total carbon saving community obligation by promoting carbon saving community qualifying actions in an area of low income.

(3) A supplier must achieve at least 15% of its total carbon saving community obligation by promoting carbon saving community qualifying actions—

(a)to members of the affordable warmth group living in a rural area; or

(b)in a deprived rural area.

(4) A carbon saving community qualifying action is the installation, at domestic premises, of a measure in paragraph (5) where the conditions in paragraph (6) are satisfied.

(5) The measures referred to in paragraph (4) are—

(a)a recommended measure installed to improve the insulating properties of the premises; or

(b)a relevant district heating connection.

(6) The conditions referred to in paragraph (4) are that the installation must be carried out—

(a)on or after 1st April 2015; and

(b)in accordance with the Publicly Available Specification where the installation is referred to in the Specification.