{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2B/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If a consumer improperly uses or deals with gas so as to interfere with the efficient conveyance of gas by the gas transporter (whether to the consumer or to any other person), the transporter may, if he thinks fit, disconnect the consumer’s premises.",
  "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. 18 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)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "words repealed",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      "type": "words repealed",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/18",
    "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."
}