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  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/29",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity Act 1989",
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  "text": "(1) The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—\n(i) section 16 of the Public Health Act 1925;\n(ii) the Public Health Act 1936;\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) Schedule 3 to the Water Act 1945;\n(v) section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;\n(vi) the Water Act 1948;\n(vii) the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949;\n(viii) the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;\n(ix) the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;\n(x) the Opencast Coal Act 1958;\n(xi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xii) section 17(10) of the Public Health Act 1961;\n(xiii) the Pipe-lines Act 1962;\n(xiv) Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964;\n(xv) Schedule 6 to the Gas Act 1965;\n(xvi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xvii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xviii) section 50 of the Agriculture Act 1967;\n(xix) section 38 of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;\n(xx) paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Countryside Act 1968;\n(xxi) section 22 of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;\n(xxii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xxiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xxiv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xxv) sections 51 . . . of the Land Compensation Act 1973;\n(xxvi) sections 47 . . . of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;\n(xxvii) Part III of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;\n(xxviii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xxix) the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;\n(xxx) sections 15(3) and 26 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;\n(xxxi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xxxii) section 9(3) of the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;\n(xxxiii) the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;\n(xxxiv) Part XVI of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n(xxxv) section 53 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982;\n(xxxvi) section 30 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;\n(xxxvii) section 120 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;\n(xxxviii) section 2(2)(c) of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984;\n(xxxix) the Building Act 1984;\n(xl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(xli) paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.\n(xlii) section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.\n(2) References in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 to a statutory company shall be construed as including references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The references in sections 73(11)(c) and 74(11)(b) of the Highways Act 1980 to electricity undertakers shall be construed as references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1)(a) of this Act.\n(5) The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be an excepted undertaker for the purposes of section 6 of the Water Act 1981.\n(6) Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code) (undertakers’ works) shall apply to a licence holder for the purposes of any works carried out by him.\n(7) The reference in section 82(4) of the Building Act 1984 (provisions with respect to demolition orders) to a person authorised by an enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of electricity shall be construed as a reference to a licence holder.\n(8) A licence holder shall be deemed to be a public undertaker and his undertaking a public undertaking for the purposes of section 125 of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 8 to, the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.",
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(iii) repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 11 Pt. II (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(vi) and (5) repealed (E.W.) (01.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 3(1), 4(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I."
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xi) repealed (S.) (24.12.2010) by Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 6), s. 97(1), Sch. 3 para. 5 (with s. 91); S.S.I. 2010/401, art. 3(h)"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xvi) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. III"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xvii) repealed (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with s. 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with regs. 3-22)"
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxii)(xxiv) and words in para. 1(1)(xxv) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxiii) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11 ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxvi) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxviii), para. 3(2)(f) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxxi) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 152, Sch. 18 Pt. IV (with ss. 137(1), 139(2), 141(1), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxxiv) substituted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 135(2)(b) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4"
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      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xl) repealed (6.4.2006 for E., 16.6.2006 for W.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), s. 270(4)(5)(f), Sch. 16; S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(e) (with Sch.); S.I. 2006/1535, art. 2(c) (with Sch.)"
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