The Gas Act 1986 (Exemptions) Order 1999

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1986 Act” means the Gas Act 1986;

“contravene” includes fail to comply with;

“convey” does not include the subjecting of gas to any gas processing operations carried out in any gas processing facility before gas conveyed from a relevant storage facility enters a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter;

“Director” means the Director General of Gas Supply;

“gas” means any substance which consists wholly or mainly of—

(a)

methane, ethane, propane, butane, hydrogen or carbon monoxide;

(b)

a mixture of two or more of those gases; or

(c)

a combustible mixture of one or more of those gases and air;

“gas processing facility” means any facility which carries out gas processing operations;

“gas processing operations” means any of the following operations, namely—

(a)

purifying, blending, odorising or compressing gas for the purpose of enabling it to be introduced into a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter;

(b)

removing from gas for that purpose any of its constituent gases, or separating from that gas for that purpose any oil or water; and

(c)

determining the quantity or quality of gas which is or is to be so introduced;

“relevant storage facility” means any facility used wholly or mainly for the purpose of storing gas, but does not include a facility used for storing gas in natural porous strata underground; and

“relevant transporter” means any person, not being the holder of a licence under section 7 of the 1986 Act(1) in respect of such conveyance, who conveys gas through pipes from a relevant storage facility for a distance not exceeding 16.093 kilometres to a pipe-line system operated by a public gas transporter, and “relevant transport” shall be construed accordingly.

(1)

Section 7 was substituted by section 5(1) of the Gas Act 1995.