The Gas (Extent of Domestic Supply Licences) Order 1997

3.—(1) Subsection (2) of section 6 shall apply in relation to any domestic supply licence, in so far as it relates to any premises situated in any of the areas specified in the Schedule, as if for the relevant date there were substituted such date as the Director may determine with respect to that area under paragraph (2) below.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, the Director may determine a date which is—

(a) in the case of any of the areas specified in the Schedule—

(i) at least four months after the Director’s proposal to determine a date in respect of that area is notified under article 5 below; and

(ii) at least two months after the date on which his determination in respect of that area is made;

(b) in the case of the area specified in Part I of the Schedule, not earlier than 1st October 1997;

(c) in the case of the area specified in Part II of the Schedule, not earlier than 1st January 1998;

(d) in the case of the area specified in Part III of the Schedule, after the date determined by him in respect of the area specified in Part II of the Schedule;

(e) in the case of the area specified in Part IV of the Schedule, after the date determined by him in respect of the area specified in Part III of the Schedule; and

(f) in the case of the area specified in Part V of the Schedule, after the date determined by him in respect of the area specified in Part IV of the Schedule.