51After subsection (1) of section 43 of the 1986 Act (making of false statements etc.) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)Any person who with intent to deceive—
(a)impersonates an officer of a public gas transporter, gas supplier or gas shipper for the purpose of obtaining entry to any premises; or
(b)for that purpose makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he is an officer, or an authorised officer, of such a transporter, supplier or shipper,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.”