The Gas (Individual Standards of Performance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Reinstatement of customer’s premises

8.—(1) This regulation applies where the relevant gas conveyor has completed work to a service pipe to the customer’s premises and any associated work to a distribution main where such pipe or main is situated under or within the premises of the customer.

(2) Where this regulation applies, the relevant gas conveyor shall, except in any of the circumstances described in paragraph (3), pay the prescribed sum to the customer where the relevant gas conveyor has not completed the reinstatement of the customer’s premises—

(a) within the prescribed period from the applicable date; and

(b) upon the expiry of each succeeding prescribed period.

(3) The circumstances described in this paragraph are—

(a) each of the circumstances described in regulation 15;

(b) that the work was requested by the customer to whom a payment under this regulation would otherwise be required to be made and related to the connection or an alteration to the connection to the customer’s premises; and

(c) that the work resulted from the act or default of the customer or persons under his control.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the customer’s premises shall be deemed to have been reinstated where—

(a) any drive, path or other route used to obtain access to any building on the customer’s premises and any building or structure on those premises has been replaced or repaired so that the drive, path, other route, building or structure is reasonably fit for the type of access or use for which it was used prior to commencement of the work; and

(b) any other part of the premises, including any garden or lawn, has been reinstated, so far as is reasonably practicable, to a reasonable standard and with reasonable care and skill having regard to its condition prior to commencement of the work.

(5) In this regulation, “premises” includes any land or structure within the curtilage of the premises to which the gas is conveyed.