{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-and-service-utilities-act-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-and-service-utilities-act-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/43",
  "legislation_title": "Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-and-service-utilities-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Schedule 7 to the Act of 1989 (use of electricity meters), the following shall be substituted for paragraph 1(2)—\n“(2) If the electricity supplier agrees, the meter may be provided by the customer; but otherwise it shall be provided by the electricity supplier (whether by way of sale, hire or loan).\n(2A) A public electricity supplier may refuse to allow one of his customers to provide a meter only if there are reasonable grounds for his refusal.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 16 wholly in force at 1.7.1992 see s. 56(2) and Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:42.038416+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}