2.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, regulations 7(3)(a)(ii), 7(8)(b), 7(9), 9, 15(2), 16, 20(2)(b)(i) and 26 shall not apply to supplier’s works or supplies where those works were brought into use or supplies commenced prior to the date of coming into force of these Regulations and regulation 4(2) and the proviso to regulation 25(1)(c) shall not apply to any Supplier’s works brought into use on or before 31st December 1936.
(2) Where the regulations specified in paragraph (1) do not apply to any supplier’s works or supplies the provisions of the Electricity Supply Regulations 1937(1) or the Electricity (Overhead Lines) Regulations 1970(2) equivalent to the regulations mentioned in paragraph (1) (including any approvals or authorities granted or given under those provisions) in force in respect of those works or supplies immediately prior to the coming into force of these Regulations shall apply until the date specified in paragraph (3) as if those provisions had been contained in these Regulations.
(3) The date referred to in paragraph (2) is the date on which any material alteration is made to the supplier’s works or supplies in question.
(4) From the date specified in paragraph (3) the exception in paragraph (1) shall cease to apply to the extent of any material alteration referred to in paragraph (3).
The Electricity Supply Regulations were made by the Electricity Commissioners under section 6 of the Electric Lighting Act 1882 (c. 56) and are not a statutory instrument.
S.I. 1970/1355