SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6 PROTECTION FOR PARTICULAR UNDERTAKINGS

Undertakings protected by Schedule

1

1

The following are the undertakings protected by this Schedule, that is to say—

a

the undertakings of the F1Agency,F11the Natural Resources Body for Wales, the Civil Aviation Authority, F2the Coal Authority and F3a universal service provider (so far as it is his undertaking in relation to the provision of a universal postal service);

b

the undertaking of any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker;

F7c

any undertaking consisting in the provision of an electronic communications code network;

d

any airport to which Part V of the M1Airports Act 1986 applies;

C1e

the undertaking of any public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of the M2Gas Act 1986;

f

the undertaking of any person authorised by a licence under Part I of the M3Electricity Act 1989 to generate, F8supply or participate in the transmission of electricity;

g

the undertaking of any navigation authority, harbour authority or conservancy authority;

h

any public utility undertaking carried on by a local authority under any Act or under any order having the force of an Act.

F4j

the undertaking of any licensed operator, within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994.

F5k

the undertaking of a person who holds a licence under Chapter I of Part I of the Transport Act 2000 (air traffic services) to the extent that it is the person’s undertaking as licence holder.

F61A

In sub-paragraph (1)(a) above “universal service provider” has the same meaning as in F9 Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011 ; and the reference to the provision of a universal postal service shall be construed in accordance with F10 that Part .

2

For the purposes of this Schedule any reference in this Schedule, in relation to any such airport as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(d) above, to the persons carrying on the undertaking is a reference to the airport operator.