The Renewables Obligation Order 2009

Revocation, transitional and savings

61.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), the following Orders are revoked—

(a) the Renewables Obligation Order 2006(1) (“the 2006 Order”); and

(b) the Renewables Obligation Order 2006 (Amendment) Order 2007(2).

(2) The 2006 Order is to continue to apply in relation to—

(a) the issue and revocation of ROCs under it in respect of electricity generated before 1st April 2009, and anything which falls to be done or determined (whether by the Authority or some other person) in relation to such issue or revocation;

(b) any obligations or requirements imposed by it on an electricity supplier, an operator of a generating station or some other person in respect of the obligation period ending on 31st March 2009, and anything which falls to be done or determined (whether by the supplier, the generator or some other person) in relation to any such obligations and requirements;

(c) any obligations and functions of the Authority in respect of that obligation period, and anything which falls to be done or determined (whether by the Authority or some other person) in relation to it.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing—

(a) article 28 of the 2006 Order is to continue to apply so as to enable the Authority to request information in respect of electricity generated in the obligation period ending on 31st March 2009;

(b) Schedule 1 to the 2006 Order is to continue to apply in relation to that obligation period.

(4) For the purposes of article 13(2)—

(a) ROCs issued under the 2006 Order in respect of electricity supplied in the obligation period ending on 31st March 2009; and

(b) certificates issued under the Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2007(3) or the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2007(4) in respect of electricity supplied in the period corresponding to that obligation period,

may be produced to the Authority by a designated electricity supplier in discharge of up to 25 per cent of its renewables obligation in respect of the obligation period ending on 31st March 2010.

(5) In this article, “obligation period” (except the reference to the obligation period ending on 31st March 2010 in paragraph (4)) and “ROCs” have the same meaning as in the 2006 Order.

(1)

S.I 2006/1004 amended by the Renewables Obligation Order 2006 (Amendment) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1078).

(2)

S.I. 2007/1078.

(3)

S.R. (NI) 2007 No 104. Articles 2(1) and 16 were amended by the Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order (N.I.) 2007 (S.R. (NI) 2007 No 440).

(4)

S.S.I. 2007/267.