Petroleum Act 1998

F1 17E Section 17D: supplemental. U.K.

(1) For the purpose of considering an application under section 17D(8), the Director may by notice require the owner to provide him with accounting information and details of the main commercial terms of any significant transactions with associated undertakings.

(2) Owners of relevant facilities shall keep their internal accounts in such manner as will enable them to provide accounting information if required to do so by notice under subsection (1).

(3) The Director shall not disclose to any person information obtained under subsection (1) without the consent of the person by or on behalf of whom it was provided, unless he is required to do so by virtue of any obligation imposed on him by or under any enactment.

(4) Any reference in this section to a right to have gas or gas of any kind stored in a relevant facility includes a reference to a right to introduce into, or take out of, such a facility gas or gas of that kind.

(5) In section 17D “main commercial conditions” means—

(a) such information as would enable a potential applicant for a right to have gas stored in a relevant facility to make a reasonable assessment of the cost of, or the method of calculating the cost of, acquiring that right;

(b) the other significant terms on which such a right would be granted; and

(c) such other information as the Director may from time to time specify by notice.

(6) In this section—

• “accounting information” means such accounting records as would be required by section 221 of the Companies Act 1985 in respect of the storage activities undertaken by an owner of a relevant facility, if those activities were the only business undertaken by the owner and the owner were a person to whom that section applied; and

• “significant transaction” means—

  (a)

  any transaction which relates to rights to have gas stored in a relevant facility; or

  (b)

  any other transaction which is of a description specified by the Director from time to time by notice.

(7) For the purposes of this section an undertaking is an associated undertaking of another undertaking if one of the undertakings has control of the other, or both undertakings are under the control of the same person or persons; and subsections (2) to (5) of section 416 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 shall apply with any necessary modifications for the purposes of this subsection as they apply for the purposes of Part XI of that Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 17A-17H inserted (10.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/1937, reg. 2(4), Sch. 4 para. 4