# Utilities Act 2000, Section 84: The gas code.


(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
6A 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/27/section/84 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000/section-84
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