Utilities Act 2000

13 U.K. In section 33A (standards of performance in individual cases)—

(a) for subsections (1) and (2) there is substituted—

“(1) The Authority may make regulations prescribing such standards of performance in connection with the activities of gas suppliers, so far as affecting customers or potential customers of theirs, as in the Authority’s opinion ought to be achieved in individual cases.

(2) Regulations under this section may only be made with the consent of the Secretary of State.”;

(b) in subsection (3)(a), for “domestic customers” there is substituted “ customers or potential customers ”; and

(c) in subsection (4), for “domestic customer” there is substituted “ customer or potential customer ” and after “failure” there is inserted “ and is of a prescribed description ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 6 para. 13 in force for specified purposes at 16.5.2001 by S.I. 2001/1781, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-10); Sch. 6 para. 13 in force for all remaining purposes at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/3266, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)