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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-16/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/29",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In the following enactments, namely—\n(a) the Water Act 1948;\n(b) section 39 of the Opencast Coal Act 1958 except in its application to Scotland;\n(c) paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Gas Act 1965;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) the New Towns Act 1981,\n“the appropriate Minister”, in relation to a a licence holder, shall mean the [Secretary of State for Trade and Industry].\n(2) In the following enactments, namely—\n(a) section 39 of the Opencast Coal Act 1958 in its application to Scotland;\n(b) the Pipe-lines Act 1962;\n(c) Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964;\n(d) the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) section 121 of the Highways Act 1980;\n(h) the Acquisition of Land Act 1981,\n(i) section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990;\n“the appropriate Minister”, in relation to a licence holder, shall mean the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(1)(a) repealed (E.W.) (01.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 3(1), 4(2), Sch. 3 Pt.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."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(1)(d) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(1)(f) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 152, Sch. 18 Pt.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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 16 para. 3(1) substituted (5.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1314, art. 3(3), Sch. para. 1(e)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(2)(e) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(2)(f) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(2)(i) inserted by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(1), Sch. 4 para. 17(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1958 c. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1965 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1975 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1981 c. 64."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1962 c. 58."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1964 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "1968 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M10",
      "text": "1981 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 3(1): transfer of functions (5.3.2009) by The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/229), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1(c)"
    }
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