The Developments of National Significance (Specified Criteria and Prescribed Secondary Consents) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Gas reception facilities

7.—(1) The construction of a gas reception facility is within regulation 3(1)(d) only if (when constructed)—

(a) the facility is within paragraph (3), and

(b) the maximum flow rate of the facility is expected to be at least 4.5 million standard cubic metres per day.

(2) The alteration of a gas reception facility is within regulation 3(1)(d) only if—

(a) the facility is within paragraph (3), and

(b) the expected effect of the alteration is to increase the maximum flow rate of the facility by at least 4.5 million standard cubic metres per day.

(3) A gas reception facility is within this paragraph if—

(a) the gas handled by the facility does not originate in Wales, England, or Scotland,

(b) the gas does not arrive at the facility from England or Scotland, and

(c) the gas has not already been handled at another facility after its arrival in Wales.

(4) In this regulation—

“maximum flow rate” (“cyfradd llif uchaf”) means the maximum rate at which gas is able to flow out of the facility;

“gas reception facility” (“cyfleuster derbyn nwy”) means a facility for—

(a)

the reception of natural gas in gaseous form from outside Wales, and

(b)

the handling of natural gas (other than its storage).