Electricity Act 1989

1 (1) The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—

(i) section 16 of the M1 Public Health Act 1925;

(ii) the M2 Public Health Act 1936;

F1 (iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iv) Schedule 3 to the M3 Water Act 1945;

(v) section 4 of the M4 Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;

[F2 F3 (vi) the M5 Water Act 1948;]

(vii) the National Parks and Access to the M6 Countryside Act 1949;

(viii) the M7 Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;

(ix) the M8 Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

(x) the M9 Opencast Coal Act 1958;

(xi) the M10 Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;

(xii) section 17(10) of the M11 Public Health Act 1961;

(xiii) the M12 Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(xiv) Schedule 3 to the M13 Harbours Act 1964;

(xv) Schedule 6 to the M14 Gas Act 1965;

(xvi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(xvii) section 40 of the M15 Forestry Act 1967;

(xviii) section 50 of the M16 Agriculture Act 1967;

(xix) section 38 of the M17 Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

(xx) paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the M18 Countryside Act 1968;

(xxi) section 22 of the M19 Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

F6 (xxiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxiv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

(xxv) sections 51 . . . F5 of the M20 Land Compensation Act 1973;

(xxvi) sections 47 F7 . . . of the M21 Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;

(xxvii) Part III of the M22 Control of Pollution Act 1974;

(xxviii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

(xxix) the M23 Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;

(xxx) sections 15(3) and 26 of the M24 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;

(xxxi) the M25 Development of Rural Wales Act 1976;

(xxxii) section 9(3) of the M26 Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;

(xxxiii) the M27 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;

(xxxiv) Parts XII and XVI of the M28 Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;

(xxxv) section 53 of the M29 Civil Aviation Act 1982;

(xxxvi) section 30 of the M30 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;

(xxxvii) section 120 of the M31 Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;

(xxxviii) section 2(2)(c) of the M32 Cycle Tracks Act 1984;

(xxxix) the M33 Building Act 1984;

(xl) section 283(2) of the M34 Housing Act 1985;

(xli) paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the M35 Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

[F2 (xlii) section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.]

(2) References in the M36 Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 to a statutory company shall be construed as including references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act.

(3) In the M37 Civil Defence Act 1939, references to public utility undertakers shall be construed as including references to a person who is carrying on activities which he is authorised by a licence or exemption to carry on and references to an electricity undertaking shall be construed as references to the undertaking carried on by any such person.

(4) The references in sections 73(11)(c) and 74(11)(b) of the M38 Highways Act 1980 to electricity undertakers shall be construed as references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1)(a) of this Act.

[F3 (5) The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be an excepted undertaker for the purposes of section 6 of the M39 Water Act 1981.]

(6) Paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 to the M40 Telecommunications Act 1984 (undertakers’ works) shall apply to a licence holder for the purposes of any works carried out by him.

(7) The reference in section 82(4) of the M41 Building Act 1984 (provisions with respect to demolition orders) to a person authorised by an enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of electricity shall be construed as a reference to a licence holder.

(8) A licence holder shall be deemed to be a public undertaker and his undertaking a public undertaking for the purposes of section 125 of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 8 to, the M42 Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(iii) repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 11 Pt. II (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2

F2 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xlii) added by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(1), Sch 4 para. 17(a)

F3 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(vi) and (5) repealed (E.W.) (01.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 3(1), 4(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I.

F4 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xvi) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. III

F5 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxii)(xxiv) and words in para. 1(1)(xxv) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I

F6 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxiii) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11 ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

F7 Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxvi) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

F8 Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxviii), para. 3(2)(f) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1925 c. 71.

M2 1936 c. 49.

M3 1945 c. 42.

M4 1948 c. 17.

M5 1948 c. 22.

M6 1949 c. 97.

M7 1951 c. 65.

M8 1954 c. 56.

M9 1958 c. 69.

M10 1961 c. 41.

M11 1961 c. 64.

M12 1962 c. 58.

M13 1964 c. 40.

M14 1965 c. 36.

M15 1967 c. 10.

M16 1967 c. 22.

M17 1967 c. 86.

M18 1968 c. 41.

M19 1968 c. 47.

M20 1973 c. 26.

M21 1973 c. 56.

M22 1974 c. 40.

M23 1975 c. 70.

M24 1976 c. 57.

M25 1976 c. 75.

M26 1978 c. 50.

M27 1979 c. 46.

M28 1980 c. 65.

M29 1982 c. 16.

M30 1982 c. 30.

M31 1982 c. 45.

M32 1984 c. 38.

M33 1984 c. 55.

M34 1985 c. 68.

M35 1987 c. 27.

M36 1927 c. 36.

M37 1939 c. 31.

M38 1980 c. 66.

M39 1981 c. 12.

M40 1984 c. 12.

M41 1984 c. 55.

M42 1987 c. 26.