Commentary on provisions of Act Section 60: Apportionment of targets
This section amends the Utilities Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act"). Where the Secretary of State has set an overall carbon emissions reduction target for the purpose of an energy company obligation, subsection (3) enables the Secretary of State to apportion that target between England and Wales and Scotland. Subsection (6) makes similar provision in relation to the apportionment of any overall home-heating cost reduction target.
	Where an overall carbon emissions reduction target has been apportioned, subsection (4) enables provision to be made by the Secretary of State for a supplier to elect that a measure carried out in Scotland is to be treated instead as carried out in England and Wales. The consent of the Scottish Ministers is required for provision enabling measures carried out in England & Wales to be treated as carried out in Scotland. Subsection (7) makes similar provision in relation to any overall home-heating cost reduction target.
	Subsection (10) enables the Scottish Ministers to use the powers in section 103B(1)(b) and (c) of the 2000 Act to require suppliers and the administrator of the obligation to provide the Scottish Ministers with information enabling them to review the operation of any orders made by them using the powers under 33BC or 33BD of the Gas Act 1986 or under sections 41A or 41B of the Electricity Act 1989 and to maintain a measures record. Subsection (12) enables this information to be shared with the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers.
	Subsection (14) ensures that the general restriction on the disclosure of information in section 105 of the 2000 Act does not apply if the disclosure is made to facilitate the performance of the functions of the administrator of the obligation.