{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-14.json",
  "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/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where, before the appointed day, the Authority has served a notice under section 28(2) of the Electricity Act on a public electricity supplier and the public electricity supplier has not satisfied the requirements set out in the notice.\n(2) On and after the appointed day the person on whom the notice is to be regarded as served shall be the supply successor (where the documents or information specified or described relate to supply) or the distribution successor (where the documents or information specified or described relate to distribution) or both the supply successor and distribution successor where the documents or information relate to both distribution and supply.\n(3) On and after the appointed day section 28 of the Electricity Act shall apply to a notice as if, notwithstanding the commencement by this Order of any provisions of the Act, it had not been amended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 28 of the Electricity Act was amended by the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992, Schedule 1, paragraph 13. With effect from the appointed day the said section is amended by Schedule 6, paragraphs 24 and 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3266/article/14",
    "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."
}