{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/29",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any of the following who is authorised by or under any enactment to execute works corresponding to those authorised by paragraph 1 or 2 above, namely—\n(a) any public gas transporter;\n(b) the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, any water undertaker or any sewerage undertaker or, in Scotland, any person supplying water in the exercise of statutory powers;\n(c) any electronic communications code operator or any former PTO; and\n(d) any operator of a driver information system who is licensed under Part II of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989,\n(in this paragraph referred to as a “relevant undertaker”) may execute such works, notwithstanding that they involve a temporary or permanent alteration of any electric line or electrical plant under the control of a licence holder.\n(2) Where a relevant undertaker is proposing to execute any such works as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above which involve or are likely to involve any such alteration as is there mentioned, sub-paragraphs (3) to (9) of paragraph 3 above shall apply as if—\n(a) any reference to the licence holder were a reference to the relevant undertaker; and\n(b) any reference to the relevant undertaker were a reference to the licence holder.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(a) substituted (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 17(2); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 40 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 196(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(c) substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 99(3) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1989 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/29/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:38.123919+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."
}