Article 9 Supplies of gas to former tariff customers
Paragraph (2) below applies where—
immediately before the appointed day a public gas supplier is supplying a tariff customer with gas; or
a public gas supplier has supplied a tariff customer with gas at any time before the appointed day.
Notwithstanding the repeal by section 9(3) of the 1995 Act of Schedule 5 to the 1986 Act, the public gas supplier’s supply successor shall be entitled on and after the appointed day to recover, in accordance with this article, charges (including standing charges) from the customer which—
are in respect of the supply of gas to him by the public gas supplier before the appointed day; and
have not been recovered by the public gas supplier before the appointed day.
The charges recoverable by virtue of paragraph (2) above shall be recoverable in accordance with the tariff that was, in accordance with section 14(1) of the 1986 Act, in force in relation to that supply at the time it was given.