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PART 8Additional obligations on scheme suppliers

Additional scheme supplier obligations: general

46.  A scheme supplier must—

(a)notify the Authority if any of the information provided to the Authority, and on which the scheme supplier’s quarterly levy payment was calculated, was incorrect or ceases to be correct,

(b)where they have provided a letter of credit in accordance with regulation 43, monitor the validity of the issuing person’s credit rating and notify the Authority as soon as reasonably practicable if the issuing person ceases to hold the required credit rating (within the meaning given in regulation 43(5)),

(c)comply with such other requirements as the Authority may specify in relation to the effective administration of the Scheme.

Additional scheme supplier obligations: the provision of information

47.—(1) A scheme supplier must provide to the Authority on request any information which the scheme supplier holds and which the Authority requires in order to discharge its functions under, or monitor compliance with, these Regulations.

(2) Information requested under paragraph (1) must be provided within such time as the Authority specifies.

Additional scheme supplier obligations: daily meter point data

48.—(1) A scheme supplier must notify the Authority of their meter point data for each day of the period beginning with 31st August 2021 and ending with 31st March 2022, and the sum of their meter point data—

(a)for the period beginning with 30th November 2021 and ending with 31st March 2022, and

(b)for the period beginning with 31st August 2021 and ending with 31st December 2021,

at such time as the Authority may request.

(2) Where a licensed gas supplier becomes a scheme supplier after 30th November 2021, they must notify the Authority of their meter point data for each day of the period of three months preceding the quarter in which they became a scheme supplier, and the sum of the meter point data for that period, at such time as the Authority may request.

(3) A scheme supplier must notify the Authority, in relation to each quarter of the scheme year beginning with 1st April 2022 and each subsequent scheme year, of their meter point data for each day of that quarter, and the sum of the meter point data for that period, by no later than the relevant date specified in the scheme schedule.

(4) Where the Authority does not make a request described in paragraph (1) or (2), or does not specify a relevant date in the scheme schedule for the purposes of paragraph (3)—

(a)it may instead notify a scheme supplier of their assumed meter point data for such period as the Authority may determine, and

(b)that scheme supplier must notify the Authority whether that data is correct, by such time as the Authority may request.

(5) If a scheme supplier does not provide any notification required under paragraph (1), (2), (3) or (4)(b), the Authority must determine the number of meter points served by that supplier on each day of the relevant period.

(6) A scheme supplier must provide the Authority with any information the Authority requires to enable it to verify the supplier’s meter point data.