8(1)The Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954 shall be amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (2) of section 1 there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(2)This Act applies to all rights of entry conferred by—
(a)the Gas Act 1986, regulations made under it or any other enactment relating to gas,
(b)Schedule 6 to the Electricity Act 1989, and
(c)any local enactment relating to gas or electricity,
in so far as those rights are exercisable for the purposes of a public gas supplier or a public electricity supplier.”
(3)In subsection (1) of section 2—
(a)for the words from “required” to “Board”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “required by a public gas supplier, a public electricity supplier or by an employee of such a supplier”;
(b)for the words “the supplier or Board or his or their employee”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “the supplier or his employee”.
(4)For subsection (3) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(3)Where paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above applies—
(a)section 46 of the Gas Act 1986 (if entry is required for the purposes of a public gas supplier); or
(b)section 109 of the Electricity Act 1989 (if entry is required for the purposes of a public electricity supplier),
shall apply to the service of the notice required by that paragraph.”
(5)In section 3(1)—
(a)the definition of “Electricity Board” shall cease to have effect;
(b)for the definition of “employee” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““employee”, in relation to a gas or electricity supplier, means an officer, servant or agent of the supplier”;
(c)after the definition of “premises” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““public electricity supplier” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Electricity Act 1989;”.