PART 4Gas facilities

Consequential amendments of the Petroleum Act 1998 in respect of storage facilities16

1

The Petroleum Act 1998 M1 is amended as follows.

2

Omit section 17C (application of section 17D) M2.

3

Omit section 17D (access to offshore gas storage facilities) M3.

4

Omit section 17E (section 17D: supplemental) M4.

5

In section 17H (enforcement of certain duties in relation to access to pipelines and offshore gas storage facilities) M5—

a

In subsection (1)—

i

omit “with any notice under section 17D(11) or”;

ii

omit “and the obligation to comply with any duty in section 17B(6) or section 17D(7)”;

iii

for “duties” substitute “ a duty ”;

iv

for “them” substitute “ it ”;

b

omit subsection (4);

c

change the section title to “Enforcement of duty in section 17GA”,

but this paragraph is subject to paragraph (7).

6

In section 28(1) (interpretation) omit the definition of “offshore gas storage facility”M6.

7

So far as section 17H would, but for the amendments made by paragraph (5), have effect in relation to a past breach, it continues to have effect in relation to that past breach as if those amendments had not been made.

8

In paragraph (7) “past breach” means a failure before the coming into force of these Regulations to comply with—

a

a duty under section 17D(1), (3), or (7);

b

a notice under section 17D(11);

c

a duty in section 17E(2).