{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-19.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/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "The insertion by section 84 of paragraph 6A of Schedule 2B to the Gas Act shall not prevent a pre-payment meter from being used to recover any charges owing before the appointed day to a gas supplier from a consumer in respect of the supply of gas to any premises previously owned or occupied by the consumer in pursuance of an agreement made between the consumer and a gas supplier before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 2B of the Gas Act was inserted by the Gas Act 1995, section 9(2) and Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3266/article/19",
    "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."
}