Electricity Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015. Amendment to the Feed-in Tariffs Order 2012 2 1 This Order amends the Feed-in Tariffs Order 2012 (“the 2012 Order ”). 2 A reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule is to the article or Schedule so numbered in the 2012 Order. Article 2 3 In article 2 (interpretation)— a in paragraph (1), after “community energy installation”, insert— “community organisation” has the meaning given in article 11; ; and b for paragraph (3), substitute— 3 In this Order— “last resort supply direction” has the meaning given to it in the standard conditions of electricity supply licences; and “stand-alone solar photovoltaic” has the meaning given to it in Annex 3 to Schedule A to Standard Licence Condition 33 of the standard conditions of electricity supply licences. . Article 9 4 Article 9 (preliminary accreditation) is amended as follows— a after paragraph (iv), in paragraph (3)(a), insert— v where the installation will be a solar photovoltaic installation with a total installed capacity of 250kW or more, whether or not the installation will be stand-alone solar photovoltaic; vi whether or not the installation will be owned by a community organisation; ; b in paragraph (4)(c)(ii), omit “and”; c at the end of sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (4), omit the full stop and insert “; and”; d after sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (4) insert— e if the application for preliminary accreditation specifies that the installation will be owned by a community organisation, the installation will be so owned. ; e at the beginning of paragraph (8), insert “Subject to paragraph (8A),”; and f after paragraph (8), insert— 8A Where the installation will be owned by a community organisation, preliminary accreditation shall be valid— a for solar photovoltaic installations, for 12 months; b for wind and anaerobic digestion installations, for 18 months; and c for hydro generating stations, for 30 months, beginning with the date on which the application for preliminary accreditation was received by the Authority. . Article 10 5 In paragraph (4) of article 10 (effect of preliminary accreditation)— a at the end of sub-paragraph (d), omit “or”; and b after sub-paragraph (e) insert— f the application for preliminary accreditation specified that the installation— i would not be stand-alone solar photovoltaic and it is stand-alone solar photovoltaic; or ii would be stand-alone solar photovoltaic and it is not stand-alone solar photovoltaic; g the application for preliminary accreditation specified that the installation would be owned by a community organisation and the Authority is not satisfied that it is owned by a community organisation. . Article 11 6 In paragraph (6) of article 11 (pre-registration of community energy installations)— a before the definition of “community benefit or co-operative society”, insert— “charity” means a charity— registered in the register of charities kept by the Charity Commission in accordance with section 29 of the Charities Act 2011 ; or as defined by section 106 (interpretation) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 ; ; b for the definition of “community benefit or cooperative society”, substitute— “community benefit or co-operative society” means a society registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 as a community benefit society or as a co-operative society; ; c for the definition of “community organisation”, substitute— “community organisation” means— any of the following which has 50 or fewer employees— a charity; a community benefit or co-operative society; or a community interest company; or a subsidiary (as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006 ), wholly owned by a charity, where the subsidiary has 50 or fewer employees and the parent charity has 50 or fewer employees; . Article 15 7 In article 15 (site of accredited FIT installations)— a after paragraph (4)(c), insert— d at least one of A or B is owned, or is to be owned, by a community organisation and the conditions in paragraph (7) are met. ; and b after paragraph (6) insert— 7 The conditions referred to in paragraph (4)(d) are that— a only A and B share, or are to share, the single grid connection referred to in paragraph (3)(a); and b for both A and B— i the Tariff Dates; or ii the Eligibility Dates, are on or after 1st April 2015. . Schedule 2 8 In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 (publication of FIT deployment data), omit the definition of “stand-alone solar photovoltaic installation”. Amber Rudd Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Energy and Climate Change 15th January 2015