The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013

[F1 PART 6 U.K. Information and assistance requirements

Textual Amendments

F1 Order revoked (with savings) (1.10.2018) by The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (Revocation and Savings) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/841), art. 3(1)-(3)

Supplies of electricity and gas under Part 6 U.K.

43.   In this Part except article 44, information which may be requested or required in respect of a supply of electricity or gas includes information relating to all sections of Schedule 1.

Information on electricity and gas supplied from authorised suppliers U.K.

44.— (1) A participant may request in writing the information under paragraph (2) from those authorised suppliers of electricity or gas that hold a licence to make such a supply.

(2) The information under this paragraph is the amount of electricity or gas supplied to the participant by an authorised supplier in——

(a) the annual reporting year in which the request is made;

(b) the alternative period.

(3) The information under paragraph (2)—

(a) may be calculated on the basis of the amount of electricity or gas supply billed to the participant during the annual reporting year or the alternative period;

(b) may cover a different 12 month period from the annual reporting year, which commences no more than 31 calendar days before the beginning of the annual reporting year or no more than 31 calendar days after the beginning of the annual reporting year.

(4) Where a supplier described in paragraph (1) receives such a request, that supplier must reply in writing within 6 weeks of the end of the annual reporting year or the alternative period to which the information relates.

(5) In this article “alternative period” means a period of 12 months which—

(a) commences no earlier than 31 calendar days before an annual reporting year begins; and

(b) finishes no later than 31 calendar days after an annual reporting year ends.

Information from electricity suppliers U.K.

45.— (1) The administrator may by notice require an electricity supplier to provide it with information as if—

(a) the notice was one provided for in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act; but

(b) in respect of such a notice—

(i) section 50(2) of the Act did not apply; and

(ii) the modifications in paragraph (2) applied.

(2) The modifications referred to in paragraph (1) are that—

(a) the purpose for which the power may be exercised is to identify public bodies or undertakings which should or should not be participants in the scheme;

(b) reference to the environmental authority in paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act is a reference to the administrator;

(c) in paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4 to the Act, the date referred to must not be earlier than two months after the date of the notice; and

(d) paragraphs 4(3) and 5 of that Schedule do not apply.

Information and assistance by occupiers U.K.

46.— (1) Where paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 applies, A may request B (where “A” and “B” are as described in that paragraph) to provide A with such reasonable assistance as A may require to comply with Part 2 or to comply with A's obligations as a participant.

(2) B must comply with the request within a reasonable time.

Information and assistance by franchisees U.K.

47.— (1) Where paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 applies, the franchisor may request the franchisee to provide it with such reasonable information and assistance as it may require to comply with Part 2 or to comply with the franchisor's obligations as a participant.

(2) The franchisee must comply with the request within a reasonable time.

Information and assistance: public bodies U.K.

48.— (1) This article applies where an applicant or a participant is a group of public bodies.

(2) In paragraph (3), “A” means the public body under article 55(4) or (5) in whose name the compliance account in the Registry is, or is to be, set up.

(3) A may request any other member (“B”) of the group to provide A with such reasonable information and assistance as A may require to comply with Part 2 or to comply with its obligations as a participant.

(4) B must comply with the request within a reasonable time.

Information and assistance by administrators, receivers and insolvency practitioners U.K.

49.— (1) Where article 24(3) applies, the group member to which an insolvency procedure is applied may request the appointed practitioner to provide it with such reasonable information and assistance as it may require to comply with its obligations as a participant.

(2) The appointed practitioner must comply with the request within a reasonable time.]