{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-7/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/schedule-7/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975—\n(a) in paragraphs 3 to 3B, for references to the Corporation there shall be substituted references to a public gas supplier;\n(b) in paragraph 3, there shall be added at the end the following sub-paragraph—\n“(3) In this paragraph and in paragraphs 3A and 3B below—\n“gas” means any substance which is or (if it were in a gaseous state) would be gas within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986;\n“public gas supplier” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Gas Act 1986;\n“private gas supplier” means a person who is authorised by section 6 of the said Act of 1986, or by an authorisation under section 8 of that Act, to supply gas through pipes to consumers’ premises.”; and\n(c) in paragraphs 3A and 3B, for references to a private supplier there shall be substituted references to a private gas supplier.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 21 repealed (S.) by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1), ss. 142, 149, Sch. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/44/schedule/7/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}