{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-16/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-16/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Electricity Act 1989",
  "text": "(1) The Electricity Act 1989 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 6A (procedure for licence applications)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), for “subsections (1A) and (1B)” substitute “subsection (1B)”;\n(b) omit subsection (1A);\n(c) in subsection (1B), after “for” insert “a smart meter communication licence or”.\n(3) In section 56FC (competitive tenders for licences for new licensable activities), in subsection (1), after “activities” insert “, other than a licence under section 6(1)(f) (smart meter communication licence),”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}