§ '(1) An RTF order may make provision for the Administrator to issue certificates to transport fuel suppliers ("RTF certificates").
§ (2) An RTF certificate is to certify—
- (a) that the supplier to whom it is issued has supplied the amount of renewable transport fuel stated in the certificate;
- (b) that that amount of such fuel was supplied by him during the period stated in the certificate;
- (c) that that amount of such fuel was supplied by him during that period at or for delivery to a place in the United Kingdom or in the part of the United Kingdom stated in the certificate; and
- (d) the other specified facts.
§ (3) Such a certificate may be issued to a supplier only if—
- (a) he applies for it in the specified manner;
- (b) his application includes evidence of the specified kind and in the specified form; and
- (c) the other specified conditions are satisfied.
§ (4) An RTF order may authorise transfers of RTF certificates (whether for a consideration or otherwise) between persons of specified descriptions.
§ (5) Such an order may also provide that such a transfer is not to be effective unless—
- (a) the specified details of it have been notified to the Administrator in the specified manner and within the specified time; and
- (b) the other specified requirements have been complied with.
§ (6) If a supplier produces an RTF certificate to the Administrator, it is to count for the purposes of section [Imposition of renewable transport fuel obligations](2) as sufficient evidence of the facts certified.
§ (7) An RTF order may provide that, in specified circumstances, evidence produced by virtue of subsection (6) may count to the specified extent towards the discharge of a renewable transport fuel obligation for a period even if it is produced after the time by which evidence had to be produced for the purposes of that obligation.
§ (8) Such an order may also provide that, in specified circumstances, evidence produced by virtue of subsection (6) may count to the specified extent towards the discharge of a renewable transport fuel obligation for a period that is later than the period stated in the certificate in question in accordance with subsection (2)(b).'.—[Mr. Timms.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.