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Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000
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[F11BStrategy relating to fuel poverty: EnglandE+W
(1)The Secretary of State must prepare and publish a strategy setting out the Secretary of State's policies for achieving the objective set out in regulations under section 1A by the target date specified in the regulations.
(2)The strategy must be published within 6 months of the day on which the first regulations under section 1A come into force.
(3)The strategy must—
(a)describe the households to which it applies,
(b)specify a comprehensive package of measures for achieving the objective by the target date, and
(c)specify interim objectives to be achieved and target dates for achieving them.
(4)The Secretary of State must take such steps as are in the Secretary of State's opinion necessary to implement the strategy.
(5)The Secretary of State must—
(a)from time to time assess the impact of steps taken under subsection (4) and the progress made in achieving the objectives and meeting the target dates,
(b)make any revision of the strategy which the Secretary of State thinks appropriate in consequence of the assessment,
(c)from time to time publish reports on such assessments.
(6)If—
(a)further regulations under section 1A are made revising an objective or the target date for achieving it, and
(b)the Secretary of State considers that changes to the strategy are necessary or desirable as a result of those regulations,
the Secretary of State must revise the strategy within 6 months of the day on which those regulations come into force.
(7)If the Secretary of State revises the strategy, the Secretary of State must publish the strategy as revised.
(8)In preparing the strategy or any revision of the strategy, the Secretary of State must consult—
(a)local authorities or associations of local authorities,
(b)persons appearing to the Secretary of State to represent the interests of persons living in fuel poverty,
(c)the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, and
(d)such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks fit.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1A 1B inserted (18.2.2014) by Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), ss. 145(2), 156(2)
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