Electricity Act 1989

5 (1) Where any application made under section 10(b) of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 is effective on the day appointed for the coming into force of section 37 of this Act—

(a) the application shall have effect as if made under the said section 37 modified for that purpose by the omission of subsection (2);

(b) anything done before that day in relation to the application (whether under the said section 10(b) or under section 32 or 34 of the Electricity Act 1957) shall have effect as if done under the corresponding provisions of Schedule 8 to this Act; and

(c) the provisions of Part I of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(2) The repeal by this Act of section 10(b) of the Schedule to the [1899 c. 19.] Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 shall not affect the validity of any consent granted under that section before the day appointed for the coming into force of the repeal.

(3) Where such a consent as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above includes a direction that planning permission for the installation of the electric line shall be deemed to be granted, or otherwise has effect as a grant of planning permission for that installation, that permission shall be deemed to extend to the installation of any of the following, namely—

(a) any support for that line, that is to say, any structure, pole or other thing in, on, by or from which that line is be supported, carried or suspended;

(b) any apparatus connected to that line for the purpose of carrying electricity; and

(c) any wire, cable, tube, pipe or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by, or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, that line.

(4) Section 37 of this Act shall not apply in relation to an electric line if its installation is authorised by a consent given under section 10(b) of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 or by a planning permission granted on an application made before the day appointed for the coming into force of the said section 37.

(5) Section 37 of this Act shall not apply to any electric line which—

(a) is a service line within the meaning of section 1 of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899; and

(b) is or was installed before the day appointed for the coming into force of the said section 37.