Part 2: Carbon dioxide capture, storage etc and hydrogen production, transport and storage Chapter 1: Revenue Support Contracts Section 76: Allocation of contracts
Section builds on the power in section 75 and specifies the process by which the Secretary of State may make provision setting out detailed rules about the process for allocating hydrogen production revenue support contracts and carbon capture revenue support contracts. Subsection (1) confers a power enabling the Secretary of State to make provision in regulations setting out how hydrogen production and carbon capture revenue support contracts are to be allocated to eligible persons. Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to make provision in regulations conferring a power on the Secretary of State to set the rules of allocation in an "allocation framework". An "allocation framework" will be produced and published for allocation rounds. The "allocation framework" will act as a "rule book" for how allocation rounds will operate. Subsection (2)(e) confers a power enabling the Secretary of State to make provision about what may or must be included in an "allocation framework".
	Subsection (3) confers a power enabling the Secretary of State to set out in regulations requirements on the Secretary of State.
	Subsection (7) allows any allocation framework made to be amended, and subsection (8) provides that subsections (4) to (7) regarding allocation frameworks are subject to any provision in regulations which could set limits on what can be contained in the allocation framework.