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(1)A certificate purchase order may provide—
(a)that no certificates are to be issued in respect of electricity generated in specified cases or circumstances, or
(b)that certificates are to be issued in respect of a proportion only of the electricity generated in specified cases or circumstances.
(2)In particular, provision made by virtue of subsection (1) may specify—
(a)electricity generated using specified descriptions of renewable sources,
(b)electricity generated by specified descriptions of generating station, or
(c)electricity generated in specified ways.
(3)Provision made by virtue of subsection (1)(b) may include—
(a)provision about how the proportion is to be determined;
(b)provision about what, subject to such exceptions as may be specified, constitutes sufficient evidence of any matter required to be established for the purpose of determining that proportion;
(c)provision authorising the relevant authority, in specified circumstances, to require an operator of a generating station to arrange—
(i)for samples of any fuel used (or to be used) in the generating station, or of any gas or other substance produced as a result of the use of such fuel, to be taken by a person, and analysed in a manner, approved by the relevant authority, and
(ii)for the results of that analysis to be made available to the relevant authority.
(4)In the case of electricity generated by a generating station fuelled or driven—
(a)partly by renewable sources, and
(b)partly by fossil fuel (other than waste which constitutes a renewable source),
only the proportion attributable to the renewable sources is to be regarded as generated from such sources.
(5)A certificate purchase order may specify—
(a)how the proportion referred to in subsection (4) is to be determined, and
(b)the consequences for the issuing of certificates if a generating station of the type mentioned in that subsection uses more than a specified proportion of fossil fuel during a specified period.
(6)Those consequences may include the consequences that no certificates are to be issued in respect of any electricity generated by that generating station during that period.
(7)A certificate purchase order may provide that ownership of a certificate may be transferred—
(a)only to persons of a specified description;
(b)only if other specified conditions are met.
(8)A certificate purchase order may specify circumstances in which the relevant authority may revoke a certificate before the certificate purchase obligation in respect of the certificate is discharged (whether before or after the certificate is presented for payment).
(9)A certificate purchase order must—
(a)prohibit the issue of GB certificates certifying that electricity has been supplied to customers in Northern Ireland by virtue of section 32S(5) or (7) where the Northern Ireland authority has notified the Authority that it is not satisfied that the electricity in question has been supplied to customers in Northern Ireland, and
(b)require the revocation of such a certificate if the Northern Ireland authority so notifies the Authority at a time between the issue of the certificate and its presentation for payment for the purposes of the certificate purchase obligation.
(10)A certificate purchase order may make provision requiring a person to whom a certificate is issued to pay to the relevant authority an amount equal to any amount that has been paid in respect of the certificate under the certificate purchase obligation if it appears to the authority that—
(a)the certificate should not have been issued to that person, and
(b)it is not possible to secure the recovery of such an amount by refusing to issue another certificate to the person.
(11)Provision under subsection (10) may include provision about enforcement and appeals.
(12)The Authority must pay any amounts it receives by virtue of subsection (10) into the Consolidated Fund.
(13)The Northern Ireland authority must pay any amounts it receives by virtue of subsection (10) into the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 32N-32Z2 inserted (18.2.2014) by Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), ss. 56(2), 156(2)
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