{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-2B/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2B/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Every consumer shall take his supply through a meter—\n(a) the use of which does not contravene section 17 of this Act; and\n(b) which is of a type appropriate for registering the quantity of gas supplied.\n(2) In default of the consumer’s doing so or agreeing to do so—\n(a) the gas transporter may disconnect or, as the case may be, refuse to connect his premises; and\n(b) any relevant gas supplier may cut off the supply of gas to his 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. 2 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      "type": "words repealed",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      "type": "words repealed",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/2",
    "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."
}