The sale or transfer of any contract, business or other asset of a State-owned electricity entity under this Act is not a sale or disposal of all or part of a transmission system or a distribution network for the purposes of section 20 of the Electricity Companies Act 1997 and that section does not, despite anything to the contrary in that section, apply –

(a) in relation to such a sale or transfer under this Act; or

(b) to a provision of this Act.