Powers to require information and effect of notices

Requirements for consents16.

(1)

The use of infrastructure by any person in accordance with a right secured to that person by virtue of these regulations is not a contravention of—

(a)

section 14(1) of the Petroleum Act 1998; or

(b)

section 17(1) of the Energy Act 2008.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), a modification notice requiring a person to carry out modifications authorises that person to carry out the modifications for the purposes of—

(a)

section 14(1) of the Petroleum Act 1998 (but nothing in Schedule 2 of that Act shall apply to such a notice);

(b)

section 1 of the Pipe-lines Act 196214;

(c)

section 31 of the Planning Act 2008;

(d)

section 17(2)(d) of the Energy Act 2008;

(e)

a storage permit under the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations 2010 or the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2010;

(f)

Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.

(3)

Paragraph (2) does not apply to the extent that a modification notice has been varied by agreement pursuant to regulation 14(1).