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• (a) which has been given to a public gas supplier under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 12 (failure to notify connection or disconnection of service pipe) of Schedule 5 to the 1986 Act; and

• (b) which is in force immediately before the appointed day,

shall have effect on and after that day as if it had been given on that day under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 12 of Schedule 2B to that Act to the supplier’s transport successor.

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• (1) Any warrant—

• (a) which has been granted under section 2(1) of the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 (warrant to authorise entry) for the purpose of enabling an employee of a public gas supplier to enter any premises, in accordance with paragraph 15(1)(b) of Schedule 5 to the 1986 Act, in order to ascertain the quantity of gas supplied to those premises; and

• (b) which is in force immediately before the appointed day,

shall have effect on and after that day as if it had been granted for the purpose of enabling an employee of the supplier’s supply successor who is authorised by him for the purpose to enter those premises, in accordance with paragraph 23(1)(b) of Schedule 2B to the 1986 Act, in order to ascertain the quantity of gas supplied to the premises.

• (2) Sub-paragraph (3) below applies to any warrant—

• (a) which has been granted under section 2(1) of the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 for the purpose of enabling an employee of a public gas supplier to enter any premises in order to cut off or discontinue the supply of gas to those premises in accordance with paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 5 to the 1986 Act; and

• (b) which is in force immediately before the appointed day.

• (3) Any warrant to which this sub-paragraph applies shall have effect on and after the appointed day as if it had been granted as two separate warrants—

• (a) one for the purpose of enabling an employee of the supplier’s transport successor who is authorised by him for the purpose to enter the premises, in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 24 of Schedule 2B to the 1986 Act, in order to disconnect the premises; and

• (b) the other for the purpose of enabling an employee of the supplier’s supply successor who is authorised by him for the purpose to enter the premises, in accordance with that sub-paragraph, in order to cut off or discontinue the supply to the premises.

• (4) In this paragraph “employee” has the same meaning as in the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954.

Street works notices

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Any notice—

• (a) which has been given by a public gas supplier in England and Wales under section 54, 55 or 57 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, or in Scotland under section 113, 114 or 116 of that Act; and

• (b) which is in force immediately before the appointed day,

shall have effect on and after that day as if it had been given by the public gas supplier’s transport successor.

Restrictive trade practices

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Rating provisions

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Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of the following, namely—

• (a) sections 19 and 33 of and Schedules 3 and 6 to the General Rate Act 1967 and Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1974, so far as those provisions of those Acts continue to have effect in relation to periods ending before 1st April 1990;

• (b) the Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 1989, so far as those Regulations continue to have effect for the purpose of determining the rateable values of hereditaments for days falling before 1st April 1995;

• (c) the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1989, so far as those Regulations continue to have effect in relation to periods ending before 1st April 1995; and

• (d) the Central Rating Lists Regulations 1994, so far as those Regulations have effect in relation to periods ending before the appointed day.

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Acquisition of rights to use gas processing facilities for downstream purposes.

Public Health Act 1936 (c.49)

Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (c.39)

Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 (c.21)

Pipe-lines Act 1962 (c.58)

Gas Act 1965 (c.36)

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 (c.51)

Post Office Act 1969 (c.48)

Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c.37)

Energy Act 1976 (c.76)

Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.45)

Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.66)

Insolvency Act 1986 (c.45)

Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c.43)

Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c.22)

Electricity Act 1989 (c.29)

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c.8)

Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c.35)

Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 (c.28)

Editorial notes

Financial provisions.

Duty of Authority to advise etc.