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Gas Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Gas Retailers, Gas Importers and General Provisions

52. No obligation to restore supply where consumer in default

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2007.

(1)

This section applies where —

(a)

a consumer’s premises have been disconnected by a gas transporter under this Act; or

(b)

the supply of gas to a consumer’s premises has been discontinued by a gas shipper or gas retailer under this Act.

(2)

The gas transporter is not under any obligation to re‑connect the consumer’s premises, or the gas shipper or gas retailer is not under any obligation to restore the supply of gas to the consumer’s premises (as the case may be) until —

(a)

the consumer is no longer the owner or occupier of the premises; or

(b)

the consumer —

(i)

has made good the default, or remedied the matter, in consequence of which the premises were disconnected or the supply of gas to such premises was discontinued; and

(ii)

has paid the reasonable expenses of disconnecting and re‑connecting the premises or of discontinuing and restoring the supply of gas to the premises, as the case may be.