Removal of meters
7.—(1) This article applies where before the appointed day a public gas supplier has removed a meter (other than such a meter which is excluded from the scope of paragraph 3 of Schedule 2B(1) to the 1986 Act by virtue of paragraph 3(8) of that Schedule) in accordance with paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 5 to the 1986 Act.
(2) Where this article applies, on and after the appointed day—
(a)subject to sub-paragraph (b) below, the meter shall be treated as if it had been removed by the public gas supplier’s transport successor in accordance with paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 2B to the 1986 Act; and
(b)paragraph 3(6)(b) of Schedule 2B shall have effect in relation to the removal as if the reference to the person there mentioned were a reference to the owner of the meter.
Schedule 2B was inserted by section 9 of the 1995 Act.