The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2026
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9 Determination of scheme customers by the Secretary of State
(1) The Secretary of State may in any scheme year give a notice (a “standard rebate notice”) to a scheme electricity supplier specifying persons to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with regulation 10. (2) The Secretary of State may not specify a person (“P”) in a standard rebate notice unless it appears to the Secretary of State that— (a) P is a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier; (b) the premises at which P is supplied, or is treated as supplied, with electricity (the “qualifying premises”) are occupied by P as their sole or main residence; and (c) P or, where both P and P’s partner occupy the qualifying premises as their sole or main residence, P or P’s partner is within the core group, determined in accordance with Schedule 1. (3) The Secretary of State may give a scheme electricity supplier more than one standard rebate notice in a scheme year. (4) In scheme year 20, a standard rebate notice may not be given after 1st March 2031. (5) A standard rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may be given only if— (a) the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates; (b) regulations are in force under section 142 of the Pensions Act 2008 and those regulations authorise the Secretary of State to provide the supplier with the personal information contained in the notice; or (c) the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to provide the electricity supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.
9 Determination of scheme customers by the Secretary of State
(1) The Secretary of State may in any scheme year give a notice (a “standard rebate notice”) to a scheme electricity supplier specifying persons to whom the supplier must provide the prescribed rebate in accordance with regulation 10. (2) The Secretary of State may not specify a person (“P”) in a standard rebate notice unless it appears to the Secretary of State that— (a) P is a Scotland domestic customer of the supplier; (b) the premises at which P is supplied, or is treated as supplied, with electricity (the “qualifying premises”) are occupied by P as their sole or main residence; and (c) P or, where both P and P’s partner occupy the qualifying premises as their sole or main residence, P or P’s partner is within the core group, determined in accordance with Schedule 1. (3) The Secretary of State may give a scheme electricity supplier more than one standard rebate notice in a scheme year. (4) In scheme year 20, a standard rebate notice may not be given after 1st March 2031. (5) A standard rebate notice containing personal information (within the meaning of section 40(5) of the Digital Economy Act 2017) may be given only if— (a) the personal information is given with the consent of the person to whom it relates; (b) regulations are in force under section 142 of the Pensions Act 2008 and those regulations authorise the Secretary of State to provide the supplier with the personal information contained in the notice; or (c) the Secretary of State is authorised by section 36 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to provide the electricity supplier with the personal information contained in the notice.
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