SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Storage Authorisation Orders.

PART IIProcedure for making Orders.

Preliminary submission of proposals.

4(1)The applicants shall publish in two successive weeks in the Gazette, and in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality of the storage area, a notice of the submission of the proposals to the Minister, naming a place in the locality where copies of the proposals, and of the accompanying map, can be inspected, describing the surface area of the storage and protective areas, and stating the nature and volume of gas proposed to be stored and the minimum depth below the surface of the ground of the stratum in which it is to be stored.

(2)The applicants shall serve a notice containing all the particulars in the notice published under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, and such further information as the Minister may direct,—

(a)on every local planning authority, local authority and river authority within whose area any part of the storage area or protective area lies, and

(b)on all statutory water undertakers within whose limits of supply any part of the storage area or protective area lies, or who are holders of a statutory licence to abstract water within either of -those areas, and

(c)on such other bodies or individuals as the Minister may direct.