{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2B/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a consumer’s premises have been disconnected by a gas transporter, or a supply of gas to a consumer’s premises has been cut off by a gas supplier, otherwise than in the exercise of a power conferred by—\n(a) paragraph 20, 21 or 22 below;\n(b) regulations under section 18(2) or 18A(1) of this Act; or\n(c) regulations under section 15 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (health and safety regulations),\nno person shall, without the relevant consent, reconnect the premises or restore the supply.\n(2) If any person acts in contravention of sub-paragraph (1) above—\n(a) he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale; and\n(b) the transporter or supplier may again disconnect the premises or, as the case may be, cut off the supply.\n(3) In this paragraph “the relevant consent ” means—\n(a) where the premises are reconnected, the consent of the gas transporter to whose main the reconnection is made;\n(b) where the supply is restored, the consent of the supplier who cut off the supply, or the consent of a person who is or is about to become a relevant gas supplier.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2B inserted (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 9(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2B para. 11 substituted (1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 27, s. 108, Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 2(1); S.I. 2001/3266, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c.37."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2B para. 11 modified (8.11.1995 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 26 of the amending Act) by 1995 c. 45, s. 17(1), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 26; S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/27",
      "affecting_title": "Utilities Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/27",
      "affecting_title": "Utilities Act 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/44/schedule/2B/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:01.836902+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."
}