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

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

1.  A gas transporter licence may authorise the holder to convey gas—

(a) to premises in a specified area within the meaning of section 7(2) of the Act.

(b) to any pipe-line system operated by another gas transporter.

(c) to—

(i) any pipe-line system operated by another gas transporter in a specified area;

(ii) any pipe-line system so operated which is of a specified description (whether in a specified area or throughout Great Britain); or

(iii) one or more particular pipe-line systems so operated.

(see section 7 of the Act)

Provide a sufficient description adequately specifying the premises or pipe-line system or a description of the premises or pipe-line system and its location, and, in the case of an application that relates to (c) above, also the specified area. Also state whether the application relates to domestic premises. For applications within paragraph 1(c)(ii) above, also specify the description of pipe-line system to which the application relates (stating, in particular, whether it relates only to any system which is designed to receive gas at an operating pressure not exceeding 7 bar gauge).

2.  Provide a statement of—

(a) particulars of the person or persons for whom the applicant intends for each of the next five years to convey gas; particulars for the arrangements made for the conveyance of gas;

(b) the approximate number of premises, if any, and expected maximum quantity of gas estimated to be conveyed through its pipe-line system 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 conveyed for each of the next five years, separately identifying any amount to be conveyed to domestic premises;

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

Together with—

(e) detailed map or maps, to scale sufficient to show—

(i) the proposed specified area, if any;

(ii) the actual or proposed configuration of the pipe-line system the applicant would operate if the application were granted, showing—

(aa) all pipes with a design operating pressure in excess of 7 bar gauge;

(bb) all pipes effecting connection to the system operated by another gas transporter; and

(cc) all points through which it is proposed that gas would be conveyed to the applicant’s pipe-line system wholly or mainly for the purpose of being conveyed to the pipe-line system operated by another gas transporter.

3.  Such particulars as will indicate whether any pipe-line system through which the applicant would be authorised to convey gas if the application were granted would be operated safely.

4.  Particulars of the applicant’s proposed arrangements to secure—

(a) the performance of any obligations in relation to escapes of gas imposed on him by Schedule 2B to the Act; and

(b) the achievement of pipe-line system security standards in accordance with standard condition 16 (Pipe-Line System Security Standards).

5.  Particulars of the applicant’s proposed arrangements for compliance with the applicable requirements of standard conditions 4 (Charging of Gas Shippers-General), 4B (Connection Charges etc), 5 (System Development Obligations), 6 (Emergency Services and Enquiry Service Obligations), 7 (Provision of Information Relating to Gas Illegally Taken), 8 (Provision and Return of Meters), 9 (Network Code), 18 (Provision of Services for Persons who are of Blind or Deaf), 19 (Arrangements in Respect of Powers of Entry), 19A (Authorisation of Officers), 19B (Exercise of Powers of Entry), 20 (Standards of Performance) and 21 (Complaint Handling Procedure).

Restriction of a gas transporter licence

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.