The Thorpe Marsh Gas Pipeline Order 2016

Consent to transfer benefit of Order

8.—(1) Except where paragraph (4) applies, in which case no such consent is required, the undertaker may, with the consent of the Secretary of State—

(a) transfer to another person (“the transferee”) any or all of the benefit of provisions of this Order and such related statutory rights as may be agreed between the undertaker and the transferee; or

(b) grant to another person (“the lessee”) for a period agreed between the undertaker and the lessee any or all of the benefit of the provisions of this Order and such related statutory rights as may be so agreed.

(2) Where an agreement has been made in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) or (b), references in this Order to the undertaker, except in paragraph (3), include references to the transferee or the lessee.

(3) The exercise by a person of any benefits or rights conferred in accordance with any transfer or grant under paragraph (1) or (4) is subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and obligations as would apply under this Order if those benefits or rights were exercised by the undertaker.

(4) This paragraph applies to a transfer to National Grid Gas of any part of the benefit of provisions of this Order, and those obligations and liabilities, and any related statutory rights which relate to, or any which may be necessary or expedient for or ancillary to, the construction, operation, maintenance and diversion of Work No. 5 by National Grid Gas.