{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-smart-meters-licensable-activity-order-2012/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-smart-meters-licensable-activity-order-2012/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111527412",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Smart Meters Licensable Activity) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-smart-meters-licensable-activity-order-2012",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Insertion of section 7AB (licensing of a person providing a smart meter communication service)",
  "text": "After section 7A, insert—\n“Licensing of a person providing a smart meter communication service\n7AB. (1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), the Authority may grant a licence authorising a person to provide a smart meter communication service (“a smart meter communication licence”).\n(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (5), the Secretary of State may grant a smart meter communication licence.\n(3) The Secretary of State may not grant a smart meter communication licence after 1 November 2018.\n(4) The first smart meter communication licence may only be granted by the Secretary of State.\n(5) A person may not be granted a smart meter communication licence unless the same person is at the same time granted a licence under section 6(1)(f) of the Electricity Act 1989.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7A was inserted by section 6 of the Gas Act 1995 (c. 45)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 6(1)(f) of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) is inserted by article 6 of this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111527412/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:20.947354+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."
}