Obligation to issue NIROCs
14.—(1) Where each of the relevant criteria in Article 16 has been met (having regard as necessary to the requirements in Articles 17 and 18), the Authority shall issue NIROCs, in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 21, in relation to a generation station in respect of each month of each obligation period in which electricity has been generated by the generating station from eligible renewable sources (whether or not for the whole of that month).
(2) Except as provided for in paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 15, NIROCs shall be issued to the operator of the generating station by which the relevant electricity was generated in a particular month.
(3) Where electricity is required to be generated by a generating station from eligible renewable sources under a qualifying arrangement or in compliance with such an arrangement to be made available to the Company (“the relevant output”), NIROCs shall be issued as set out below.
(4) Where the Company is entitled to the relevant output under or in compliance with a qualifying arrangement, NIROCs shall be issued to licensed suppliers notified to the Authority by the Company as being purchasers of the entitlement to receive NIROCs and to each in such quantities as are appropriate to the entitlement to receive NIROCs which the Company notifies the Authority each has purchased in arrangements made by the Company under Article 20 (subject to the total amount of NIROCs available to be so issued).