The Gas (Metrication) Regulations 1992

PART III AMENDMENTS OF SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION

Gas (Declaration of Calorific Value) Regulations 1972

4.—(1) In this regulation any reference to a regulation followed by a number is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the Gas (Declaration of Calorific Value) Regulations 1972(1).

(2) Regulation 2 (which relates to the calculation of charges for therms supplied by a public gas supplier) shall be re-numbered as regulation 2(1).

(3) After the re-numbered regulation 2(1), the following shall be inserted as regulation 2(2)—

“(2) This regulation shall have effect until the expiry of 31st December 1999.”

(4) After regulation 2, the following shall be inserted as regulation 2A—

“Calculation of charges for kilowatt hours supplied

2A.   Where a public gas supplier charges for gas supplied by it according to the number of kilowatt hours supplied, the number of kilowatt hours supplied to any consumer shall be ascertained by multiplying the number of cubic metres of gas supplied to the consumer by the number of megajoules in the declared calorific value of the gas and dividing by 3.6.”

(5) In regulation 3 (which makes provision for charging for gas supplied on the basis of a declared calorific value of the gas)—

(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”; and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in paragraph (1), for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.

Gas Quality Regulations 1983

5.  In the Gas Quality Regulations 1983(2)—

(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, regulation 6 (which requires a public gas supplier to maintain the calorific value of the gas supplied at not less than its declared calorific value) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”, and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in regulation 6, for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.

Gas (Alternative Method of Charge) Regulations 1990

6.—(1) In this regulation any reference to a regulation followed by a number is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the Gas (Alternative Method of Charge) Regulations 1990(3).

(2) (a) Until the expiry of 31st December 1999, regulation 2 (interpretation), regulation 3 (provision for an alternative method of charging on the basis of actual calorific values of gas supplied) and the heading of regulation 5 (calculation on the basis of the actual calorific value of gas supplied) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms” in each place where it occurs; and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000—

(i) in regulation 2, regulation 3 and in the heading of regulation 5, for the word “therms” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”; and

(ii) regulation 5(1) shall cease to have effect.

(3) In regulation 5, after paragraph 5(1) the following paragraph shall be inserted as paragraph (1A)—

“(1A)   The number of kilowatt hours supplied by a relevant supplier to a customer during a relevant charge period shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:

where

• A is the number of cubic metres of gas supplied to the customer during the relevant charge period, and B is the relevant calorific value in megajoules per cubic metre, of the gas supplied to the customer during such period.”

(4) In regulation 8 (which makes provision for a public gas supplier to transfer to or from the alternative method of charging for gas)—

(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, paragraph (2) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”; and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in paragraph (2) for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.

Gas (Testing of Apparatus and Equipment) Regulations 1990

7.—(1) In this regulation any reference to a regulation followed by a number is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the Gas (Testing of Apparatus and Equipment) Regulations 1990(4).

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, the definition of “a relevant supplier” shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”; and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in the definition of “a relevant supplier”, for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.

(3) In regulation 5 (obligation of a relevant supplier in respect of the printing of quarterly statements and charges)—

(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, paragraph (a) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”; and

(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in paragraph (a), for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1878; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1974/847 and S.I. 1980/1851.

(2)

S.I. 1983/363.

(3)

S.I. 1990/1634.

(4)

S.I. 1990/1635.