{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-16/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-16/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Gas Act 1986",
  "text": "(1) The Gas Act 1986 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 7B (licences: general)—\n(a) omit subsection (2B);\n(b) in subsection (2C), after “for” insert “a smart meter communication licence or”.\n(3) In section 41HC (competitive tenders for licences for new licensable activities), in subsection (1), after “activities” insert “, other than a smart meter communication licence,”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/schedule/16/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:53.494367+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."
}