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

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 supplies gas at the time of the application and which the applicant would cease to supply if the application were acceded to (“relevant premises”);

(ii) the annual aggregate quantity of gas in kilowatt hours which the applicant reasonably expects to be supplied to relevant premises in the twelve months following the application; and

(iii) the number of premises to which the applicant would supply gas, and the annual aggregate quantity of gas in kilowatt hours which would be supplied 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 of section 7A(10) of the Act) in relation to the applicant, a description of the applicant’s proposed arrangements under section 7A(9) of the Act for—

(i) ensuring continuity of supply for all such relevant consumers; and

(ii) in the case of each such consumer who is supplied with gas in pursuance of a contract (within the meaning of that section), securing such continuity on the same terms as nearly as may be as the terms of the contract.

(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 significantly 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.