There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996, Section 3.
3.—(1) No person shall convey gas in a network unless—
(a)he has prepared a safety case containing the particulars specified in Schedule 1 and that safety case has been accepted by the Executive; F1...
[F2(aa)there is a sole emergency reporting service provider for the network; and]
(b)where any other person is conveying gas in that network, there is a sole network emergency co-ordinator for the network.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a network emergency co-ordinator is, subject to paragraph (3), a person who has prepared a safety case containing the particulars specified in Schedule 2 and has had that safety case accepted by the Executive.
(3) Where a network emergency co-ordinator has given written notice to the Executive and to all persons conveying gas in the network that he no longer intends to act in that capacity, he shall not be the network emergency co-ordinator for the purposes of these Regulations from the time such notice takes effect (which shall not be less than 6 months after it was given).
[F3(3A) For the purposes of these Regulations, an “emergency reporting service provider” is a person who has prepared a safety case containing the particulars specified in Schedule 2A and has had that safety case accepted by the Executive.
(3B) Where an emergency reporting service provider has given written notice to the Executive and all persons who are conveying gas in the network that they no longer intend to act in that capacity, that person ceases to be an emergency reporting service provider on the relevant date.
(3C) For the purposes of paragraph (3B) “the relevant date” means—
(a)the date specified in the written notice given by the person, which may not be before the end of the period of two years beginning with the date on which the notice is given; or
(b)if earlier, the date on which another person who has prepared a safety case in relation to the relevant network containing the particulars specified in Schedule 2A has their safety case accepted by the Executive.]
(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent a person who conveys gas in a network from also being the network emergency co-ordinator [F4or the emergency reporting service provider (or both)].
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 3(1) omitted (6.4.2023) by virtue of The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(a)
F2Reg. 3(1)(aa) inserted (6.4.2023) by The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b)
F3Reg. 3(3A)-(3C) inserted (6.4.2023) by The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 4(3)
F4Words in reg. 3(4) inserted (6.4.2023) by The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284), regs. 1(3), 4(4)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1
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