The Gas (Modification of Therm Limits) Order 1992

Consequential amendment of the Gas (Metrication) Regulations 1992

3.  For paragraph (5)(a) of regulation 3 of the Gas (Metrication) Regulations 1992(1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(5) With effect from 1st January 2000—

(a) in the following provisions—

(i) section 7(12) (definition of “relevant main”), and

(ii) section 10(5) (limitation on public gas supplier’s duty to supply),

• for “25,000 therms ” there shall be substituted “732,000 kilowatt hours ”; and

  (aa)

  in the following provisions—

  (i)

  section 4(2)(d) (duty of Secretary of State etc. to enable persons to compete effectively),

  (ii)

  section 8(5)(b) (limitation of authorisation to premises a minimum distance from the main of a public gas supplier unless a specified rate of supply is exceeded of gas), and

  (iii)

  section 14(4)(b) (provision for special agreements with customers for a minimum supply of gas),

• for “2,500 therms ” there shall be substituted “73,200 kilowatt hours ”;”.

(1)

S.I.1992/450.