{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/27",
  "legislation_title": "Utilities Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "The gas code.",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2B to the 1986 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph 6 (meters for disabled persons) there is inserted—\nUse of pre-payment meters\n6A 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.\n(3) In paragraph 7 (recovery of gas charges etc.)—\n(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”) ”;\n(b) sub-paragraph (2) shall cease to have effect; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted—\n(a) install a pre-payment meter on the premises in place of the existing meter; or\n(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;\nand the supplier may recover any expenses incurred in so doing from the consumer.\n(4) In paragraph 23(2), for paragraph (c) there is substituted—\n(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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/27/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:11:04.854048+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}