{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-2A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/27",
  "legislation_title": "Utilities Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A person holding office as chairman or other member must not—\n(a) seek or take any instructions that might compromise, or might reasonably be seen to compromise, the independence of the Authority in relation to its designated regulatory functions; or\n(b) carry out any other activity, or have any financial or other interest, that might compromise, or might reasonably be seen to compromise, that person’s impartiality.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2A inserted (10.11.2011) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2704), regs. 1(1), 24(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2A substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/530), regs. 1(1), 71; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/27/schedule/1/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:43.947420+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."
}