Section 84 The gas code.I1

(1)

Schedule 2B to the 1986 Act is amended as follows.

(2)

After paragraph 6 (meters for disabled persons) there is inserted—

Use of pre-payment meters
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A pre-payment meter installed by an authorised supplier on any premises shall not be used to recover any sum other than a sum owing to an authorised supplier in respect of the supply of gas to those premises or the provision of the meter.

(3)

In paragraph 7 (recovery of gas charges etc.)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1)(a) for the words from “the consumer’s” to “him” there is substituted “ any premises of his (in this paragraph referred to as “the premises”) ”;

(b)

sub-paragraph (2) shall cease to have effect; and

(c)

in sub-paragraph (3) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted—

(a)
install a pre-payment meter on the premises in place of the existing meter; or
(b)
cut off the supply to the premises by disconnecting the service pipe at the meter or by such other means as he thinks fit;
and the supplier may recover any expenses incurred in so doing from the consumer.

(4)

In paragraph 23(2), for paragraph (c) there is substituted—

(c)
exercising a power conferred by paragraph 3(5) or 7(3)(a) (and testing gas fittings, and making any adjustments required for their safe operation, after the exercise of the power).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 84 wholly in force at 1.10.2001; s. 84 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 110(2); s. 84 in force at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/3266, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)