Amendment to article 11 (pre-registration of community energy installations)

11.—(1) Article 11 is amended as follows.

(2) At the beginning of paragraph (2), insert “Subject to paragraph (2A),”.

(3) After paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) The Authority must not pre-register a community energy installation in respect of which an MCS certificate has not been issued where, at the time that the application for pre-registration is received by the Authority, the application limit for installations of that particular description for the tariff period beginning on 1st January 2019—

(a) has been exceeded; or

(b) would be exceeded if an MCS certificate were to be issued for the installation during the tariff period beginning on 1st January 2019.”.

(4) In paragraph (3), after “the application”, insert “is received by the Authority on or before 31st March 2019, and”.

(5) In paragraph (5)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (d), after “on or after 8th February 2016”, insert “, and its MCS certificate is issued on or before 31st March 2019”;

(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (d)(ii), insert “; and”;

(c) after sub-paragraph (d)(ii), insert—

“(e) where the installation’s MCS certificate is issued on or after 1st April 2019—

(i) the eligibility date is the date on which the application for FIT payments is received by a FIT licensee; and

(ii) the tariff date is 1st January 2019.”.