{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/973",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Gas Act 1965",
  "text": "(1) The Gas Act 1965 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 17(5) (duties of public gas supplier in respect of gas accidents)—\n(a) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) the words “, river purification authority” shall cease to have effect; and\n(ii) the word “and” in the third place where it occurs shall cease to have effect; and\n(b) after that paragraph there shall be inserted the following:—\n“(aa) if it appears to them that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency will have duties to discharge in any such event, for that body, and”.\n(3) In section 28(1) (interpretation of Part II of that Act), the definition of “river purification authority” shall cease to have effect.\n(4) In Part IV of Schedule 2, in paragraph 17(a) for the words “river purification authorities” there shall be substituted “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”.\n(5) In paragraph 11(a) of Schedule 6, for the words “a river purification authority” there shall be substituted “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/18",
      "affecting_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/973/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
}