{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-3B.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Exercise of designated regulatory gas functions etc",
  "text": "The Authority shall ensure that its staff do not—\n(a) seek or take any instructions that might compromise, or might reasonably be seen to compromise, the Authority’s independence in relation to its designated regulatory gas functions; or\n(b) carry out any other activity, or have any financial or other interest, that might compromise, or might reasonably be seen to compromise, the Authority’s independence in relation to those functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3B inserted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/530, reg. 129A (as inserted by The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1016), regs. 1(2), 3(43))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/419/article/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:20.413064+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."
}