Utilities Act 2000

81 Standard conditions of gas licences

(1) The standard conditions for the purposes of gas licences of any type (that is to say, licences under section 7, section 7A(1) or section 7A(2) of the 1986 Act) may contain provision—

(a) for any standard condition included in a licence of that type not to have effect until brought into operation in such manner and in such circumstances as may be specified in or determined under the standard conditions;

(b) for the effect of any standard condition included in such a licence to be suspended in such manner, and in such circumstances, as may be so specified or determined; or

(c) for any standard condition included in such a licence which is for the time being suspended to be brought back into operation in such manner and in such circumstances as may be so specified or determined.

(2) Such conditions as may be determined by the Secretary of State before the commencement of subsection (3), and published by him in such manner as he considers appropriate, in relation to gas licences of any type shall, subject to such modifications of the conditions made under Part I of the 1986 Act after the determination under this subsection, be standard conditions for the purposes of licences of that type (in place of the standard conditions which would otherwise be incorporated in licences of that type granted immediately before that commencement).

(3) In section 8(1) of the 1986 Act (standard conditions of licences to be incorporated in gas licences)—

(a) the words “and sections 23(2), 26(1A) and 27(2) below” shall be omitted; and

(b) for “section 8(2) of the Gas Act 1995” there is substituted “section 81(2) of the Utilities Act 2000”.