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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 531
2.—(1) Article 2 is amended as follows.
(2) Renumber the existing text of Article 2 as paragraph 1.
(3) In paragraph 1—
(a)before point (1) insert—
“(A1) ‘the Gas Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to natural gas transmission networks(1);
(A2) ‘the Northern Ireland department’ means the Department for the Economy;”;
(b)omit point (2);
(c)in point (5) (definition of “protected customer”)—
(i)for “Member State concerned” substitute “Secretary of State”;
(ii)for “that Member State” substitute “the United Kingdom”;
(d)omit point (6);
(e)in point (7) (definition of “competent authority”)—
(i)after “‘competent authority’” insert “, in relation to a member State,”;
(ii)for “Member” substitute “member”;
(iii)at the end insert “as it applies in EU law”;
(f)in point (8) (definition of “national regulatory authority”), after “‘national regulatory authority’” insert “, in relation to a member State,”;
(g)after point (8) insert—
“(8A) ‘regulatory authority’—
(a)in relation to Great Britain, means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority; and
(b)in relation to Northern Ireland, means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.”
(h)omit point (9); and
(i)omit points (11) to (26).
(4) After paragraph 1 insert—
“2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following expressions have the meanings given in the Gas Regulation—
‘ancillary services’;
‘customer’;
‘distribution’;
‘distribution system operator’;
‘firm capacity’;
‘interconnector’;
‘interruptible capacity’;
‘LNG facility’;
‘LNG facility capacity’;
‘natural gas undertaking’;
‘storage capacity’;
‘system’;
‘system user’;
‘technical capacity’;
‘transmission’;
‘transmission system operator’.”.
The Gas Regulation is amended by S.I. 2018/xxx and S.I. 2018/xxx.
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