An Act to provide for the establishment of Area Gas Boards and a Gas Council and for the exercise and performance by those Boards and that Council of functions relating to the supply of gas and coke and certain other matters; for the transfer to such Boards as aforesaid and to the said Council of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of gas undertakers and other persons; for co-ordinating the activities of Area Gas Boards and the National Coal Board relating to carbonization; to amend the law relating to the supply of gas; to make certain consequential provision as to Income Tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Citation
11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 67
Introduced by
22 January 1948 (Commons)
Territorial extent
Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent
30 July 1948
Commencement
1 May 1949
Repealed
31 December 1972
Other legislation
Amended by
Gas Act 1960
Gas Act 1965
Repealed by
Gas Act 1972
Status: Repealed
The Gas Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 67) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which nationalised, or bought into state control, the gas making and supply industry in Great Britain. It established 12 area gas boards to own and operate all public gas-making, distribution and sales facilities and created a central authority: the Gas Council. It vested the existing local authority and company-owned gas undertakings into the area boards with effect from 1 May 1949. The Gas Act 1948 was one of a number of Acts promulgated by the post-war Labour government to nationalise elements of the UK's industrial infrastructure; other Acts include the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946; the Electricity Act 1947; Transport Act 1947 (railways and long-distance road haulage); and the Iron and Steel Act 1949.[1]
^Kelf-Cohen, Reuben (1973). British Nationalisation 1945–1973. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0333136543.
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