The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2014

PART 13Miscellaneous provisions

Notices, notifications and applications

71.  All notices, notifications and applications under these Regulations—

(a)must be in writing; and

(b)may be transmitted by electronic means.

Consequential amendments

72.—(1) The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2011(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 23 (exceptions to duty to accredit), after paragraph (5) insert—

“(6) The Authority must not accredit an eligible plant if—

(a)it is, or at any time has been, an accredited domestic plant within the meaning given by regulation 2 of the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2014;

(b)an application for accreditation of the plant has been made under those Regulations and that application has not been withdrawn by the applicant or rejected by the Authority; or

(c)it provides heat to the same property as an accredited domestic plant or a plant for which an application for accreditation under those Regulations has been made which has not been withdrawn or rejected.”.