{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/schedule-5/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/27",
  "legislation_title": "Utilities Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 1 (consumption to be ascertained by appropriate meter) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (1) there is inserted—\n“(1A) An authorised supplier may give a supply otherwise than through an appropriate meter in such circumstances as may be prescribed.”\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) after “customer” there is inserted “ (who may provide a meter which belongs to him or is made available otherwise than in pursuance of arrangements made by the supplier) ”; and\n(b) for “(whether by way of sale, hire or loan)” there is substituted “ (who may provide a meter which belongs to him or to any person other than the customer) ”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2A) for “a public electricity supplier” there is substituted “ an authorised supplier ”.\n(5) In sub-paragraphs (7) and (9), for “a public electricity supplier” there is substituted “ an electricity supplier ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 3 wholly in force at 1.10.2001; Sch. 5 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 110(2); Sch. 5 para. 3(1)(2) in force for specified purposes at 16.5.2001 by S.I. 2001/1781, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-10); Sch. 5 para. 3(1)(2) in force for all remaining purposes and Sch. 5 para. 3(3)-(5) in force for all purposes at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/3266, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/27/schedule/5/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}