Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

NIROC Register

19.—(1) The Authority shall establish and maintain a register of NIROCs (“the Register”) which shall be conclusive as to whether or not a NIROC subsists and as to the person who is for the time being its registered holder.

(2) Schedule 3 shall have effect with respect to the Register.

(3) A NIROC comprises a Register entry of its particulars and shall be regarded as being issued at the point when those particulars are entered in the Register by the Authority.

(4) In accordance with the provisions of Schedule 3, the Authority shall ensure that the Register contains, by way of entries made in it—

(a) an accurate record of the particulars of each NIROC as issued by the Authority (amended to reflect any change of registered holder which may occur) and which remains eligible to be produced as evidence pursuant to Article 3; and

(b) in addition to the record of the particulars of each NIROC, a list of the names of all persons who are either the registered holder of a NIROC or, although not at that time the registered holder of a NIROC, have notified the Authority that they wish an entry to be made and maintained in respect of them as prospective registered holders of NIROCs.

(5) Only the registered holder of a NIROC may use it as the evidence or as part of the evidence required from him under Article 3(1) and a NIROC may not be used by its registered holder or by any other person as the evidence or as part of the evidence required under Article 3(1) from any person other than the registered holder.