§ .—(1) After the abolition of the Gas Consumers' Council, any duty of the Gas Consumers' Council to make an annual report, in relation to any calendar year for which such a report has not been made, shall be carried out by the Council.
413§ (2) The period between the abolition of the Gas Consumers' Council and the end of the preceding calendar year (if less than 12 months) shall he treated as the calendar year for which the last annual report is required.
§ (3) If that period is nine months or more, the Council shall make the last annual report as soon as practicable after the end of that period.
§ (4) If that period is less than nine months the last annual report shall be made no later than the first report of the Council under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2.
§ (5) In this paragraph "annual report" means a report required by section 41 of the 1986 Act.").
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