{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002/schedule-3/part-IV/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002/schedule-3/part-IV/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2665",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/IV/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Particulars relating to the events",
  "text": "(a) Total number of events, if any, during the 3 month period specified in regulation 31(7), classified as specified in sub-paragraph (b) and as also classified as involving deliberate or accidental contact, damage or interference by each of the following—\n(i) a generator, a distributor, an electronic communications code operator, a gas transporter, a water or sewerage authority (in Scotland, Scottish Water), a local or highway authority (in Scotland, a local roads authority or a roads authority), or their respective contractors;\n(ii) farmers, farm workers or farm implements;\n(iii) private individuals;\n(iv) other persons; and\n(v) other causes, e.g. corrosion, ground subsidence, faulty manufacture, ageing or deterioration.\n(b) The classes referred to in sub-paragraph (a) are—\n(i) low voltage service lines;\n(ii) low voltage distributing mains; and\n(iii) high voltage electric lines (specifying voltage).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 4 para. 4(a)(i) substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 4 para. 4(a)(i) substituted (14.7.2004) by The Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1822), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2665/schedule/3/part/IV/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:43:15.022339+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."
}