The Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (“the Principal Regulations”) to set revised fees for entering documents onto the register which the Secretary of State is required to maintain under regulation 27 of the Principal Regulations.

These Regulations also make amendments to the enforcement provisions in Part 7 of the Principal Regulations to provide an enforcement mechanism for regulations 10 and 11 of the Principal Regulations, which contain duties which were not previously enforceable, due to a drafting oversight.

Regulation 8 of these Regulations makes amendments to regulation 32 of the Principal Regulations to allow the keeper of the register to disclose documents or data to the operator of the accreditation scheme through which the energy assessor entered the documents or data onto the register. An amendment is also made to regulation 32 to set out that where the keeper of the register discloses bulk access data to the Secretary of State for certain research and statistical purposes relating to energy efficiency, the Secretary of State may publish such bulk access data in anonymised form. A further amendment is made to regulation 32 of the Principal Regulations to allow the keeper of the register to disclose certain bulk access data to the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“the Authority”), the Secretary of State and a person acting on behalf of the Authority or the Secretary of State, for the purposes of carrying out a function in relation to a scheme established under section 100 of the Energy Act 2008 (a scheme to facilitate and encourage renewable generation of heat).

These Regulations also make a number of minor amendments to correct drafting errors in the Principal Regulations.