Part 2: Carbon dioxide capture, storage etc and hydrogen production, transport and storage Chapter 1: Revenue Support Contracts Section 71: Payments to relevant market participants
Section 71 deals with payments from a relevant counterparty and/or hydrogen levy administrator to market participants who are obliged to pay a hydrogen levy.
	Subsection (1) enables regulations to make provision about payments to be made to relevant market participants by a relevant counterparty and/or hydrogen levy administrator, for example the pass through of payments received by a hydrogen production counterparty from a hydrogen producer under a hydrogen production revenue support contract.
	Subsection (2) sets out that regulations may make provision regarding the calculation or determination of amounts which are owed by a relevant counterparty and/or hydrogen levy administrator and the issuing of notices requiring payment.
	Subsection (3) enables the Secretary of State to make provision in regulations requiring that customers of market participants who are obliged to pay the levy benefit, in accordance with those regulations, from payments made to those market participants by a relevant counterparty and/or hydrogen levy administrator.
	Subsection (4) defines a ‘relevant counterparty’ for the purposes of this section.