Section 180 | Equipment lease is part of affordable warmth programme

(1)The conditions referred to in section 177(1)(a)(iii) are that—

(a)the plant or machinery which is the subject of the equipment lease consists of a boiler, heat exchanger, radiator or heating control that is installed in a building as part of a space or water heating system,

(b)the expenditure of the equipment lessor is incurred before 1st January 2008, and

(c)the equipment lease is approved for the purposes of this section as entered into as part of the affordable warmth programme.

(2)The approval mentioned in subsection (1)(c) may be given, with the consent of the Treasury—

(a)by the Secretary of State;

(b)in the case of buildings in Scotland, by the Scottish Ministers;

(c)in the case of buildings in Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales;

(d)in the case of buildings in Northern Ireland, by the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland.

(3)If an approval is withdrawn, it is to be treated for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) as never having had effect.