# Electricity Act 1989, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W+S

(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—
(i) section 16 of the Public Health Act 1925;
(ii) the Public Health Act 1936;
(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(iv) Schedule 3 to the Water Act 1945;
(v) section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;
(vi) the Water Act 1948;
(vii) the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949;
(viii) the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;
(ix) the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;
(x) the Opencast Coal Act 1958;
(xi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xii) section 17(10) of the Public Health Act 1961;
(xiii) the Pipe-lines Act 1962;
(xiv) Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964;
(xv) Schedule 6 to the Gas Act 1965;
(xvi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xvii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xviii) section 50 of the Agriculture Act 1967;
(xix) section 38 of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;
(xx) paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Countryside Act 1968;
(xxi) section 22 of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;
(xxii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxiii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxiv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxv) sections 51 . . . of the Land Compensation Act 1973;
(xxvi) sections 47 . . . of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;
(xxvii) Part III of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;
(xxviii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxix) the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;
(xxx) sections 15(3) and 26 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;
(xxxi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxxii) section 9(3) of the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;
(xxxiii) the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;
(xxxiv) Part XVI of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;
(xxxv) section 53 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982;
(xxxvi) section 30 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;
(xxxvii) section 120 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;
(xxxviii) section 2(2)(c) of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984;
(xxxix) the Building Act 1984;
(xl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xli) paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.
(xlii) section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.
(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.
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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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