Part III Other Acts
Utilities Act 2000 (2000 c 27) | Legislation

Part III Other Acts

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

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(1)     The Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 1(2) (restriction on exercise of rights), for “a public electricity supplier†there is substituted “an electricity operatorâ€.

(3)     In section 2(1) (warrants)—

(a)     for paragraph (a) there is substituted—

“(a)     that admission to premises specified in the information is reasonably required by a gas operator or an electricity operator or by an employee of a gas operator or an electricity operator;â€; and

(b)     for the words “supplier or any employee of the operator or supplier†(in paragraph (b) and the

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