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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2E+W+S Storage Authorisation Orders

Part IIIE+W+S Cases where Procedure under Part II need not be followed

Orders transferring functions from one [F1public gas supplier]to anotherE+W+S

Textual Amendments

14(1)Part II of this Schedule shall not apply to an order which varies a storage authorisation order and the sole purpose of which is the transfer of the benefit of, or functions under, the storage authorisation order from one [F2public gas supplier]to another, or to make any other change in the [F3public gas transporters]having the benefit of, or exercising functions under, the storage authorisation order.E+W+S

(2)The [F3public gas supplier]in whose favour any such order is made shall, within three weeks of the date when responsibility for the underground gas storage to which the order relates is transferred in pursuance of the order, serve notice of the transfer—

(a)on the Minister,

(b)on every local planning authority, local authority and river authority within whose area any part of the storage area or of the protective area lies,

(c)on all statutory water undertakers within whose limits of supply any part of the storage area or of the protective area lies, or who are the holders of a statutory licence to abstract water within either of those areas, and

(d)[F4on every owner, lessee and occupier (except tenants for a month or any period less than a month) of any land within the storage area or within the protective area.]

[F4on every person who falls within sub-paragraph (3),]

[F5(3)A person falls within this sub-paragraph if he is—

(a)an owner, lessee, tenant (whatever the tenancy period) or occupier of any land within the storage area or within the protective area;

(b)a person to whom the applicant would, if it were proceeding to purchase that land under section 5(1) of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, be required to give notice to treat, or

(c)a person who the applicant thinks would be likely to be entitled to make a claim for compensation under section 10 of that Act if that land were purchased under a compulsory purchase order, so far as he is known to the applicant after making diligent inquiry.]

Textual Amendments

F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 14(1) substituted (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45 s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 7(3)