PART VIIELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES
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A renewables obligation order may provide for the Authority to require—
a
an electricity supplier to provide the Authority with information, or with information of a particular kind, which in the authority's opinion is relevant to the question whether the supplier is discharging, or has discharged, his renewables obligation;
b
a person to provide the authority with information, or with information of a particular kind, which in the Authority's opinion is relevant to the question whether a renewables obligation certificate is, or was or will in future be, required to be issued to the person.
2
That information must be given to the Authority in whatever form it requires.
3
A renewables obligation order may—
a
require operators of generating stations generating electricity (wholly or partly) from biomass to give specified information, or information of a specified kind, to the Authority;
b
specify what, for this purpose, constitutes “biomass”;
c
require the information to be given in a specified form and within a specified period;
d
authorise or require the Authority to postpone the issue of certificates under Article 54 to the operator of a generating station who fails to comply with a requirement imposed by virtue of paragraph (a) or (c) until such time as the failure is remedied;
e
authorise or require the Authority to refuse to issue certificates to such a person or to refuse to issue them unless the failure is remedied within a prescribed period.
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The Authority may publish information obtained by virtue of paragraph (3).
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No person is required by virtue of this Article to provide any information which the person could not be compelled to give in evidence in civil proceedings in the High Court.