Part 1Gas Importation and Storage

Chapter 2Importation and storage of combustible gas

Activities requiring a licence

3Exception for activities carried on partly on land etc

(1)

This Chapter does not apply in relation to—

(a)

the use of a controlled place for the unloading of gas to an installation which is connected with land by a permanent structure providing access at all times and for all purposes;

(b)

the conversion of a natural feature of which part is in a controlled place and part under land, if the operations necessary for the conversion take place wholly or mainly on, over or under land;

(c)

the use of a place for the storage of gas, or the recovery of gas so stored, where—

(i)

the gas was, or is to be, introduced into the store by means of a well on land, and

(ii)

part of the place is a controlled place and part is under land;

(d)

the establishment or maintenance of an installation for the purposes of activities falling within paragraph (a).

(2)

In this section—

“land” means—

(a)

land in England;

(b)

land in Wales;

(c)

land in Scotland landward of the low water mark;

“well” includes a borehole.