Gas Act 1986

Other functions of Council E+W+S

40 General duty to advise Director. E+W+S

It shall be the duty of the Council to advise the Director on any matter which—

(a) appears to the Council to be a matter which relates to tariff customers and in respect of which any of the Director’s functions are or may be exercisable; and

(b) is referred to it by the Director or is a matter on which it considers it should offer advice.

41 Annual reports. E+W+S

(1) The Council shall, as soon as practicable after the end of the year 1986 and of each subsequent calendar year, make to the Director and to the Secretary of State a report on its activities during that year.

(2) Every such report shall include a statement of the matters on which, during the year to which it relates, the Council has advised the Director under section 40 above.

(3) The Council shall arrange for every such report to be published in such manner as it considers appropriate.

(4) In making any such report, the Council shall have regard to the need for excluding, so far as that is practicable—

(a) any matter which relates to the affairs of an individual, where the publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Council, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that individual; and

(b) any matter which relates specifically to the affairs of a particular body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Council, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that body.