Electricity Act 1989

1(1)The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—

(i)section 16 of the M1Public Health Act 1925;

(ii)the M2Public Health Act 1936;

F1(iii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iv)Schedule 3 to the M3Water Act 1945;

(v)section 4 of the M4Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;

[F2F3(vi)the M5Water Act 1948;]

(vii)the National Parks and Access to the M6Countryside Act 1949;

(viii)the M7Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;

(ix)the M8Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

(x)the M9Opencast Coal Act 1958;

(xi)the M10Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;

(xii)section 17(10) of the M11Public Health Act 1961;

(xiii)the M12Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(xiv)Schedule 3 to the M13Harbours Act 1964;

(xv)Schedule 6 to the M14Gas Act 1965;

(xvi). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(xvii)section 40 of the M15Forestry Act 1967;

(xviii)section 50 of the M16Agriculture Act 1967;

(xix)section 38 of the M17Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

(xx)paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the M18Countryside Act 1968;

(xxi)section 22 of the M19Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

F6(xxiii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxiv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

(xxv)sections 51 . . . F5of the M20Land Compensation Act 1973;

(xxvi)sections 47 F7. . . of the M21Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;

(xxvii)Part III of the M22Control of Pollution Act 1974;

(xxviii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

(xxix)the M23Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;

(xxx)sections 15(3) and 26 of the M24Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;

(xxxi)the M25Development of Rural Wales Act 1976;

(xxxii)section 9(3) of the M26Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;

(xxxiii)the M27Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;

(xxxiv)Parts XII and XVI of the M28Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;

(xxxv)section 53 of the M29Civil Aviation Act 1982;

(xxxvi)section 30 of the M30Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;

(xxxvii)section 120 of the M31Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;

(xxxviii)section 2(2)(c) of the M32Cycle Tracks Act 1984;

(xxxix)the M33Building Act 1984;

(xl)section 283(2) of the M34Housing Act 1985;

(xli)paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the M35Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

[F2(xlii)section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.]

(2)References in the M36Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 to a statutory company shall be construed as including references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act.

(3)In the M37Civil Defence Act 1939, references to public utility undertakers shall be construed as including references to a person who is carrying on activities which he is authorised by a licence or exemption to carry on and references to an electricity undertaking shall be construed as references to the undertaking carried on by any such person.

(4)The references in sections 73(11)(c) and 74(11)(b) of the M38Highways Act 1980 to electricity undertakers shall be construed as references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1)(a) of this Act.

[F3(5)The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be an excepted undertaker for the purposes of section 6 of the M39Water Act 1981.]

(6)Paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 to the M40Telecommunications Act 1984 (undertakers’ works) shall apply to a licence holder for the purposes of any works carried out by him.

(7)The reference in section 82(4) of the M41Building Act 1984 (provisions with respect to demolition orders) to a person authorised by an enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of electricity shall be construed as a reference to a licence holder.

(8)A licence holder shall be deemed to be a public undertaker and his undertaking a public undertaking for the purposes of section 125 of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 8 to, the M42Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

Textual Amendments

F6Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxiii) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11 ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

F7Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxvi) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

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