Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 2009 Northern Ireland

The Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2009

This Order imposes an obligation (“the renewables obligation”) on all electricity suppliers, licensed under the Electricity Order (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the Electricity Order”) who supply electricity in Northern Ireland, to produce a certain number of renewables obligation certificates in respect of each megawatt hour of electricity that each supplies to customers in Northern Ireland during a specified period known as an obligation period (Article 5). It also “bands” the different technologies that are used to generate electricity from renewable sources, meaning that the number of certificates that will be issued in respect of that electricity depends on the way in which that electricity has been generated. The Order provides for the renewables obligation to be administered by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation(“the Authority”) who are responsible for issuing renewables obligation certificates (NIROCs) to renewable electricity generators on their renewable output. These certificates are sold to electricity suppliers with or without the associated renewable electricity. Show full description

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26 compliance obligations

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

Operator 6
Distributor 4
Any Person 3
Trader 1

Plus 12 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

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Operators also bound by 125 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Space Industry Regulations 2021 2021 71 duties
Payment Services Regulations 2017 2017 41 duties
Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 34 duties
The Quarries Regulations 1999 1999 31 duties
Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 2015 22 duties

Distributors also bound by 33 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 2002 19 duties
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 1995 14 duties
UK REACH Regulation (retained EU law) 2006 11 duties
Electricity Act 1989 1989 9 duties
Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (UK CLP) 2008 7 duties

Any Person also bound by 749 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 110 duties
Licensing Act 2003 2003 105 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 97 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 86 duties

Traders also bound by 219 other Acts (top 5 shown)

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 1995 952 duties
TULRCA 1992 1992 39 duties
Companies Act 2006 2006 39 duties
Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 2013 39 duties
The Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 2018 33 duties

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