The Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014

Citation, commencement, interpretation and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 6th April 2014.

(2) In these Regulations—

“gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986(1);

“the 1999 Regulations” means the Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999(2).

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

(4) These Regulations do not apply to any pipe-line works which were commenced by a gas transporter, or for the execution of which a gas transporter invited tenders, before the date on which these Regulations come into force.

(1)

1986 c. 44; section 7(1) was amended by section 76(1), (2) of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27). By virtue of section 76(7) of that Act, existing references to a public gas transporter have effect as if they were references to a gas transporter.

(2)

S.I. 1999/1672. Amended by section 73(2) (now repealed) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) and S.I.s 2007/1996, 2011/1043, 2011/1824, 2013/755, S.S.I. 1999/1, 2008/202 and 2010/460. Modified by paragraph 17 of Schedule 15 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, section 76(7) of the Utilities Act 2000, section 1(4) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16) and by S.I. 1999/416.