Gas Act 1986

PART I Provisions and Savings Coming into Force on Appointed Day

1 (1) A notification received or given by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section 29A of the 1972 Act which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if received or given by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section 6 of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(2) A direction given by the Secretary of State under subsection (2) of the said section 29 A which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if given by the Secretary of State under subsection (2) of the said section 6; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

2 A consent given or having effect as if given under section 29 of the 1972 Act by the Secretary of State which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as an authorisation granted by the Secretary of State under section 8 of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

3 Any regulations made under section 25 of the 1972 Act which are effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if—

(a) they were made under section 12 of this Act; and

(b) references in those regulations to the Corporation were references to a public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of this Act;

and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

4 Any regulations made or having effect as if made under section 29B of the 1972 Act which are effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if—

(a) they were made under section 16 of this Act; and

(b) references in those regulations to the Corporation were references to a public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of this Act;

and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

5 Any meter which immediately before the appointed day is, or is treated as, stamped under section 30 of the 1972 Act shall be treated as stamped under section 17 of this Act.

6 (1) This paragraph applies to any regulations made or having effect as if made under section 31 of the 1972 Act which—

(a) are effective on the appointed day; and

(b) do not make such provision as is mentioned in subsections

(2) Any regulations to which this paragraph applies shall have effect as if made under section 15 of the [1974 c. 37.] Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for the general purpose mentioned in section 18(1) of this Act; and, subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, the provisions of Part I of that Act and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(3) Section 1(2) of the said Act of 1974 shall have effect as if any regulations to which this paragraph applies were in force under an enactment specified in the third column of Schedule 1 to that Act

(4) Section 20 of the said Act of 1974 shall have effect as if anything done before the appointed day in contravention of any regulations to which this paragraph applies had been done on or after that day.

7 (1) A direction given by the Secretary of State under section 17 of the [1982 c. 23.] Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if given by the Director under section 19 of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(2) Any reference in a deed or other instrument to the functions of the Corporation shall be taken to include a reference to any obligations arising under an agreement entered into by the Corporation in pursuance of directions given or having effect as if given under section 19 of this Act.

8 (1) A notice given to the Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section 15 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if given to the Director under subsection (1) of section 20 of this Act and as if any map accompanying that notice and complying with the requirements of subsection (2) of the said section 15 complied with the requirements of subsection (2) of the said section 20; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(2) A notice published by the Secretary of State under section 15(3) of the said Act of 1982 which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if published by the Director under section 20(3) of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

(3) A direction given by the Secretary of State under section 15(4) of the said Act of 1982 which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if given by the Director under section 20(4) of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

9 A direction given by the Secretary of State under section 16(1) of the [1982 c. 23.] Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if given by the Director under section 21(1) of this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.

10 Any maximum prices fixed by the Corporation under paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the 1972 Act which are effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if fixed by the Director under section 37 of this Act.

11 Any office fixed or address published before the appointed day for the purposes of section 44 of the 1972 Act shall be deemed on and after that day to have been fixed or published for the purposes of section 46(3) of this Act.

12 (1) Where immediately before the appointed day there is in force an agreement which—

(a) confers or imposes on the Corporation any rights or liabilities ; and

(b) refers (in whatever terms and whether expressly or by implication) to any provision of the 1972 Act, to the Corporation's statutory gas undertaking or to statutory purposes,

the agreement shall have effect, in relation to anything falling to be done on or after that day, as if for that reference there were substituted a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act, to the Corporation's undertaking as a public gas supplier or, as the case may require, to purposes connected with the supply of gas through pipes to premises in the Corporation's authorised area.

(2) In this paragraph "authorised area" and "public gas supplier " have the same meanings as in Part I of this Act.

(3) References in this paragraph to an agreement include references to a deed, bond or other instrument.

13 Where—

(a) any sum was deposited with the Corporation by way of security under any provision of the 1972 Act; and

(b) on and after the appointed day that sum is treated by the Corporation as deposited under any provision of this Act,

any period beginning three months or less before that day, being a period during which the sum was deposited with the Corporation, shall be treated for the purposes of the payment of interest on that sum as a period during which the sum was deposited under that provision of this Act.

14 The repeal by this Act of section 43 of the 1972 Act shall not affect the operation of that section in relation to offences committed before the appointed day.

15 The repeal by this Act of section 46 of the 1972 Act shall not affect the operation of that section as applied by section 22 of the [1965 c. 36.] Gas Act 1965.

16 The repeal by this Act of Schedule 4 to the 1972 Act shall not affect the operation on or after the appointed day of so much of that Schedule as relates to the determination by arbitration of any matter which immediately before that day falls to be determined by arbitration under that Schedule.

17 The repeal by this Act of any provision by virtue of which any enactment applies in relation to a person carrying on a gas undertaking shall not affect the continuing validity of anything done under that enactment before the appointed day; and that enactment shall continue for the purposes of anything so done to have effect on and after that day as if the enactment continued to apply in relation to the Corporation and, after the transfer date, to the successor company as it applied in relation to the Corporation before the appointed day.