{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2000/article-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Until the appointed day for the coming into force for all remaining purposes of section 51(2) and Schedule 4 the following provisions shall apply.\n(2) Paragraph 3(1) and (6) to (10) of the Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 6 of the Electricity Act by Schedule 4 shall have effect as follows—\n(a) as if they were inserted into the Electricity Act as a new Schedule 6A and not in substitution of Schedule 6 of the Electricity Act (as that Schedule had effect on the passing of the Act);\n(b) for “electricity supplier” in each place where it appears there is substituted “public electricity supplier”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (1) after “any premises” there is inserted “which were, immediately before he began to supply, supplied by a public electricity supplier or the holder of a licence under section 6(2) of this Act whose licence has been revoked in accordance with its conditions”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (1) after “otherwise than” there is inserted “to a person as a tariff customer (within the meaning of section 22(4) of this Act) or”;\n(e) in sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) “or (2)” shall be deleted;\n(f) in sub-paragraph (9) “(subject to 7B)” shall be deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1780",
      "affecting_title": "The Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3343/article/8",
    "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."
}