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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3343",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) In the case of any continuing application which is either a request for the revocation of a licence or has been made under sections 7B(1) or 8AA of the Gas Act or section 6(3) of the Electricity Act, the Secretary of State and the Authority shall exercise their functions in respect of such an application as if, notwithstanding any provisions of the Act, sections 4 and 4A in the case of the Gas Act and section 3 in the case of the Electricity Act had not been replaced.\n(2) For the purposes of this article, a “continuing application” means one which has been made but not determined before 20th December 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7B of the Gas Act was inserted by the Gas Act 1995, section 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 8AA of the Gas Act was inserted by the Gas Act 1995, Schedule 3, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3343/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:08:17.051248+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."
}