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The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022

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Provision of rebate to core group customers

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9.—(1) A scheme electricity supplier who is given a rebate notice must provide the prescribed rebate to each core group customer.

(2) In these Regulations “core group customer”, in relation to a scheme electricity supplier, means a person specified in a rebate notice who—

(a)is a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier; or

(b)was a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier, if, during the scheme year in which the notice is given, the supplier has informed the Secretary of State that the person is a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier.

(3) The scheme electricity supplier must provide the prescribed rebate to a core group customer by—

(a)crediting to the customer’s electricity account an amount as a result of which the amount (including Value Added Tax) charged to the customer is reduced by the amount of the prescribed rebate;

(b)following a request by the customer, crediting to the customer’s gas account an amount as a result of which the amount (including Value Added Tax) charged to the customer is reduced by the amount of the prescribed rebate;

(c)tendering payment of the amount of the prescribed rebate to the customer;

(d)providing a customer who pre-pays for electricity with credit to the amount of the prescribed rebate against the cost (including Value Added Tax) of future electricity use; or

(e)following a request by a customer who pre-pays for gas, providing the customer with credit to the amount of the prescribed rebate against the cost (including Value Added Tax) of future gas use.

(4) The date on which the prescribed rebate is provided to a core group customer is the date on which the scheme electricity supplier complies with paragraph (3).

(5) If the rebate notice is given to the scheme electricity supplier on or before 1st March in a scheme year, the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate to the core group customers specified in the notice by 31st March in that scheme year.

(6) If the rebate notice is given to the scheme electricity supplier after 1st March in a scheme year—

(a)the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate to the core group customers specified in the notice before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which it receives the notice; and

(b)the prescribed rebate is to be treated as being provided in the scheme year in which the notice is given.

(7) A scheme electricity supplier who provides the prescribed rebate to a core group customer must—

(a)specify on the customer’s bill; or

(b)otherwise notify the customer in writing,

that the customer has been given a rebate under the Scheme.

(8) This regulation is subject to regulation 10.

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