The Gas (Connection Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1488

GAS

The Gas (Connection Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Made

9th June 2002

Coming into force

1st July 2002

The Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 10(7) and 47(3)(b) of the Gas Act 1986(1) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf and with the consent of the Secretary of State, makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Gas (Connection Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st July 2002.

2.  In regulation 3(a) of the Gas (Connection Charges) Regulations 2001(2) for “five” there shall be substituted “twenty”.

The seal of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority here affixed is authenticated by the signature of

L.S.

R. A. M. Ramsay,

A member of the Authority

17th May 2002

I consent

Brian Wilson,

Minister of State for Industry and Energy,

Department of Trade and Industry

9th June 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Gas (Connection Charges) Regulations 2001 make provision for entitling a gas transporter to require a person requiring a connection to a relevant main in pursuance of section 10(2) (duty to connect certain premises) of the Gas Act 1986 to pay to the transporter an amount in respect of the expenses of the laying of the main to provide the connection to a relevant main. The regulations make such provision in respect of mains laid either before or after the commencement of the Regulations.

These Regulations amend those Regulations by extending the period (mentioned in regulation 3(a) of those Regulations) during which those expenses may be recovered from five years from the laying of the main in question to twenty years from that date.

(1)

1986 c. 44.

(2)

S.I. 2001/3267.