Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

92 Power to add to supplies protected under Insolvency Act 1986 E+W+S

(1) The Secretary of State may by order amend section 233 of the Insolvency Act 1986 so as to add to the supplies mentioned in subsection (3) of that section any of the following—

(a) a supply of gas, electricity, water or communication services by a specified description of person;

(b) a supply of a specified description of goods or services by a specified description of person where the supply is for the purpose of enabling or facilitating anything to be done by electronic means.

(2) The Secretary of State may by order amend section 372 of that Act of 1986 so as to add to the supplies mentioned in subsection (4) of that section any of the following—

(a) a supply of gas, electricity, water or communication services by a specified description of person;

(b) a supply of a specified description of goods or services by a specified description of person where the supply is for the purpose of enabling or facilitating anything to be done by electronic means.

(3) The power to make an order under this section includes power to make incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional or saving provision, including doing so by amending any enactment.

(4) An order under this section must be made by statutory instrument.

(5) A statutory instrument containing an order under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(6) In this section—

• “enactment” includes—

  (a)

  an enactment contained in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978),

  (b)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament, and

  (c)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales; and

• “specified” means specified in the order.