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

6.  If the application is for a restriction of a licence—

(a) an estimate of—

(i) the total number of premises to which the applicant conveys gas at the time of the application and to which the applicant would cease to so convey if the application were acceded to (“the relevant premises”)

(ii) the aggregate maximum quantity of gas in kilowatt hours which the applicant reasonably expects to be conveyed to the relevant premises in the twelve months following the application; and

(iii) the number of premises to which the applicant would convey gas (separately giving the number of any such premises that are domestic premises), and the aggregate maximum quantity of gas in kilowatt hours which would be conveyed to those premises by him, in each of the three years following the coming into effect of the restriction, if the application were acceded to; and

(b) unless there are, at the date of the application, no relevant consumers (within the meaning set out in sub-paragraph (c) below) in relation to the applicant, a description of the applicant’s proposed arrangements to ensure compliance with section 10 of the Act (ensuring the connection to all such relevant consumers is maintained).

(c) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (b), a person is a relevant consumer if—

(i) immediately before the restriction takes effect, he is connected to the pipe-line system of the holder of the licence; and

(ii) his premises are to be excluded from the licence by the restriction.

(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.