{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3266",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions ) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) The substitution of paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 7 to the Electricity Act by section 52 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 shall not prevent a pre-payment meter from being used as provided for in the said paragraph 12(2) before its substitution in pursuance of an agreement made between an electricity supplier and a customer of its before the appointed day for the recovery of any sum owing before that day.\n(2) For the purposes of this article, “electricity supplier” has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 7 to the Electricity Act before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3266/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:04.593119+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."
}