The Gas (Applications for Licences and Extensions and Restrictions of Licences) Regulations 2001

PART II FURTHER INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS TO ACCOMPANY AN APPLICATION IN RESPECT OF A GAS SHIPPER LICENCE(1)

1.  A gas shipper licence may authorise the holder to–

(a) make arrangements generally with any gas transporter for gas to be introduced into, conveyed by means of or taken out of a pipe-line system operated by that transporter; or

(b) make such arrangements for purposes connected with the supply of gas to specified premises, being—

(i) any premises in a specified area;

(ii) any premises of a specified description (whether in a specified area or throughout Great Britain); or

(iii) particular premises.

(see section 7A(2) of the Act)

Provide a sufficient description adequately specifying the premises or a description of the premises, and also the specified area, if any, to which the application relates.

2.  Provide a statement of—

(a) particulars of the gas transporter(s) with whom the applicant intends for each of the next five years to ship gas;

(b) the approximate number of premises in respect of which gas is to be shipped for each of the next five years, separately giving the number of any such premises that are expected to be domestic premises;

(c) the forecast annual maximum quantity of gas in kilowatt hours to be shipped for each of the next five years, separately identifying any amount to be shipped to domestic premises; and

(d) where the application is for an extension to the gas shipper licence, the annual quantity in kilowatt hours of gas shipped by the applicant under the existing licence(s), separately identifying any amount shipped to domestic premises.

3.  If the application is for a licence or an extension to a licence, details, in relation to each gas transporter in respect of whose pipe-line system the applicant proposes to make arrangements of the sort referred to in section 7A(2) of the Act, of—

(a) whether the applicant proposes to comply with—

(i) the network code (within the meaning of standard condition 1 (Definitions and Interpretation)) established by that transporter; or

(ii) the terms of standard condition 6 (conveyance of Gas Otherwise than on Network Code or Similar Terms); and

(b) if (a)(ii) above is the case, the manner in which the applicant proposes to comply with that standard condition.

4.  A description of the applicant’s proposed arrangements for compliance with the applicable requirements of standard conditions 3 (General Obligations in Respect of Use of Relevant Transporter’s Pipe-line System), 8 (Information as Respects Premises Served), 11 (Supply and Return of, and Information etc Relating to, Gas Meters), 16 (Arrangements in Respect of Powers Entry). 16A (Authorisation of Officers), and 16B (Exercise of Powers of Entry).

5.  A description of the applicant’s proposed arrangements for compliance with the requirements of standard condition 5 (Obligations as Respects Emergencies etc) in relation to the handling of a pipe-line system emergency.

(1)

In this part of this Schedule, if the application is for an extension or restriction of a licence, information and documents need only be given in so far as, in any material respect, they differ from or add to the most recent information or documents which were provided in relation to the same requirement—

(i)

with an application made by the applicant in accordance with these Regulations; or

(ii)

subsequent to such an application in pursuance of a condition of the applicant’s licence.