{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-supply-amendment-regulations-1990/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-supply-amendment-regulations-1990/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-supply-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 3(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) for the definition of “apparatus” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““apparatus” includes plant, equipment, meters, lines and appliances used or intended to be used for carrying electricity for the purposes of supplying or using energy;”;\n(b) in the definition of “consumer” sub-paragraph (a) shall be deleted;\n(c) for the definition of “distributing main” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““distributing main” means an electric line through which energy is supplied or intended to be supplied by a supplier to service lines or directly to a single consumer;”;\n(d) for the definition of “electric line” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““electric line” means any line which is used or intended to be used for carrying electricity for any purpose and includes, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) any apparatus connected to any such line for the purpose of carrying electricity;\n(b) any wire, cable, tube, pipe, insulator or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by, or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, any such line;”;\n(e) the definition of “Electricity Board” shall cease to have effect;\n(f) in the definition of “neutral conductor” for the word “transmission” there shall be substituted the word “carrying”;\n(g) in the definition of “phase conductor” for the word “transmission” there shall be substituted the word “carrying”;\n(h) in the definition of “service line” after the words “from a distributing main” there shall be inserted the words “to a single consumer” and after the words “from the premises of the supplier” there shall be added the words “to a single consumer;”;\n(i) in the definition of “supplier” for the words “the person generating the supply” there shall be substituted the words “that person”;\n(j) in the definition of “supply” the words “with or” shall be deleted and after the words “of energy to” there shall be inserted the words “apparatus or to”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/533",
      "affecting_title": "The Electricity Supply (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/390/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:26:27.630381+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."
}