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SCHEDULE 16 Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 (c.21)

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1

The Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 shall be amended as follows.

2

For subsection (2) of section 1 there shall be substituted the following subsection—

2

This Act applies to all rights of entry conferred by—

a

the Gas Act 1986, regulations made under it or any other enactment relating to gas,

b

Schedule 6 to the Electricity Act 1989, and

c

any local enactment relating to gas or electricity,

in so far as those rights are exercisable for the purposes of a public gas supplier or a public electricity supplier.

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In subsection (1) of section 2—

a

for the words from “required” to “Board”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “required by a public gas supplier, a public electricity supplier or by an employee of such a supplier”;

b

for the words “the supplier or Board or his or their employee”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “the supplier or his employee”.

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For subsection (3) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection—

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Where paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above applies—

a

section 46 of the Gas Act 1986 (if entry is required for the purposes of a public gas supplier); or

b

section 109 of the Electricity Act 1989 (if entry is required for the purposes of a public electricity supplier),

shall apply to the service of the notice required by that paragraph.

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In section 3(1)—

a

the definition of “Electricity Board” shall cease to have effect;

b

for the definition of “employee” there shall be substituted the following definition—

“employee”, in relation to a gas or electricity supplier, means an officer, servant or agent of the supplier

c

after the definition of “premises” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“public electricity supplier” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Electricity Act 1989;