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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2974",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE UTILITIES ACT 2000 COMING INTO FORCE ON 7TH NOVEMBER 2000",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nPurpose\nSection 2(3) (abolition of Gas Consumers' Council and consumers' committees)\nFor all purposes\nSection 3(6) and (7) (transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of the Gas Consumers' Council)\nFor all purposes\nSection 4 (forward work programmes)\nFor the purpose of requiring the Council to prepare and publish its forward work programme\nSection 17 (preliminary matters in relation to functions of the Council)\nFor all purposes\nSection 18(1) to (4) and (7) (acquisition and review of information by the Council)\nFor all purposes\nSection 19(1) to (3), (4)(a), (5) and (6) (provision of advice and information by the Council to public authorities and other persons)\nFor all purposes\nSection 20(1) to (4) (provision of information by the Council to consumers)\nFor all purposes\nSection 20(5) and (6) (provision of information by the Council to consumers in relation to consumer complaints)\nFor the purpose of requiring the Council to publish statistical information in relation to complaints made by consumers\nSection 21(1) to (3), (4)(a), and (5) (power for the Council to publish advice and information about consumer matters)\nFor all purposes\nSection 22 (complaints)\nFor all purposes\nSection 23 (investigations)\nFor all purposes\nSection 24(1) to (3) (provision of information to the Council)\nFor the purpose of enabling the Council to direct the holder of a gas or electricity licence to supply information to it\nSection 27(1) and (3) to (7) (regulations relating to provision of information under sections 24 to 26)\nFor all remaining purposes\nSection 28(3)(a) (the definition of “distribute”)\nFor the purpose of defining a “distribution system” where that term is used in Part III of the Act\nSection 105 (general restrictions on the disclosure of information) with the exception of section 105(8)(b)\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 2, paragraphs 10 to 14 (the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council)\nFor all purposes\nIn schedule 6 (minor and consequential amendments)—\nparagraph 1\nFor the purpose of the entries in Part I of Schedule 6 referred to in this Order\nparagraph 5\nFor all purposes\nparagraph 12(f)\nFor all purposes\nparagraph 15\nFor all purposes\nin paragraph 19(a), the definition of “authorised supplier”\nFor the purposes of Part III of the Act\nparagraph 22(b)\nFor all purposes\nparagraph 24\nFor the purpose of the entries in Part II of Schedule 6 referred to in this Order\nparagraph 28\nFor the purpose of including in section 25(8) of the Electricity Act “or section 27(4)(b) of the Utilities Act 2000 (order to comply with a direction under section 24 of that Act)”\nparagraph 35\nFor all purposes\nin paragraph 38(2), the definition of “authorised supplier”\nFor the purposes of Part III of the Act\nparagraph 40(b)\nFor all purposes\nparagraph 45\nFor all remaining purposes\nIn Schedule 7, paragraphs 24, 25, 28 and 30 to 32 (transitional provisions and savings)\nFor all purposes\nIn Schedule 8 (repeals) the entries relating to the—\nParliamentary Commissioner Act 1967\nFor all purposes\nChronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970\nFor all purposes\nHouse of Commons Disqualification Act 1975\nFor the purposes of references to the Gas Consumers' Council and the Chairman of a consumers' committee appointed under section 2 of the Electricity Act\nNorthern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975\nFor the purposes of references to the Gas Consumers' Council and the Chairman of a consumers' committee appointed under section 2 of the Electricity Act\nGas Act 1986—\nsections 2 and 3, in section 7B subsection (4)(d) and the word “and” preceding it, 31, 32A, in section 33A(6)(a) the words “or, with the agreement of either party, by the Council”, 33E(2)(a), 40 and 42 and Schedule 2\nFor all purposes\nin section 48(1) the definition of “the Council”\nFor all purposes save for its use in section 41 of the Gas Act for so long as that provision remains in force\nElectricity Act 1989, sections 2, in section 39(5)(b) the word “either” and the words “or, if he thinks fit, by the consumers' committee to which the supplier is allocated or any sub-committee of that committee”, 42B(2)(a), 45, 47(4), 51 to 55 and 57 and Schedule 2\nFor all purposes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1970 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1975 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1975 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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