Part 4: New Technology Chapter 3: Miscellaneous Section 159: Renewable liquid heating fuel obligations
Section 159 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations imposing on off gas grid heating fuel suppliers an obligation in respect of renewable liquid heating fuel that corresponds to the renewable transport fuel obligation (RTFO) provided for in the Energy Act 2004. The RTFO obligates specified suppliers of relevant transport fuels to produce evidence showing that within a specified period a specified amount of renewable transport fuel was supplied within the UK.
	Accordingly, the obligation provided for under this section would require specified off-gas-grid heating fuel suppliers to produce evidence that within a specified period a specified amount of renewable liquid heating fuel was supplied within the UK (the "Renewable Liquid Heating Fuel Obligation" or "RLHFO"). The section would allow the required amount of fuel to be supplied either by the obligated supplier directly, or (wholly or partly) by other suppliers.
	Subsection (2) provides that the regulations can make provision connected with the RLHFO which corresponds to provision made by, or that may be made under, Chapter 5 of Part 2 of the Energy Act 2004 (which provides for the RTFO). This enables the regulations made under this section to provide for operational arrangements relating to the administration and enforcement of the RLHFO.
	Subsection (3) requires that the Secretary of State must consult such persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate before making regulations under this section.
	Subsection (4) states that the power to make regulations under this section is subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.